Khuntia included in reconstituted CWC

| | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary-in-charge and former Rajya Sabha member Rama Chandra Khuntia is the lone party leader from Odisha who has been included in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) that was reconstitute by AICC president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday.

Khuntia has been made a permanent invited member of the CWC. In the previous CWC, former MP Sushila Tiria was the only Odisha leader, who has been excluded this time.

Khuntia, known to be held in trust by Rahul Gandhi for his party organisational works in several States, is also vice-president of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and the head of the INTUC’s Odisha wing.