Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday accepted the proposal to rename the party's Legal and Human Rights Department as the Legal, Human Rights and RTI Department.
This was announced by party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi in a statement.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has approved the names of the office-bearers of the department.
Mukul Gupta has been named Secretary (Court cases and Election matters); Vipul Maheshwari, Secretary (Coordination) and Anoop G. Chaudhuri, Chairman (Supreme Court Unit).
Vivek Tankha was already appointed earlier the Chairman of the Legal, Human Rights and RTI Department.
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