Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal appoints Ajay Maken as new treasurer

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Congress general secretary in charge of Rajasthan a few months ago. "Congress president has appointed Ajay Maken as the treasurer of the All India Congress Committee, with immediate effect," party general secretary K C Venugopal said in a statement. "The party appreciates the contribution of the outgoing treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal," the statement further said.

Bansal was appointed as interim treasurer after the demise of Ahmed Patel. Ajay Maken, a former Union Minister, had earlier served as Delhi unit chief and was also a minister in Sheila Dikshit's government in Delhi. Ajay Maken formerly served as the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and is a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

He has also served as a minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet. In other news from the Congress party, some Congress leaders have called for delaying the seat-sharing talks with INDIA bloc partners for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections till November so as to do it from a position of strength, sources said. The call from a section of leaders, particularly those from states where the Congress is directly in a contest with some INDIA bloc partners, came while the top party leadership pitched for strengthening the Congress as well as the opposition bloc.