Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday appointed Arvinder Singh Lovely and Bhupesh Baghel as the new state unit chiefs of Delhi and Chhattisgarh, respectively, following the party's rout in Assembly polls in four states.
The appointments would come into effect immediately, said a statement.
Lovely, 46, has been active in politics since 1987 and is known to be close to senior Congress leader Ajay Maken. He was elected as General Secretary, Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress in 1990.
He was made a Minister in the Shiela Dikshit Cabinet in 2003 and handled a number of key portfolios like Transport, Education and Revenue.Arvinder Singh Lovely is a legislator and had been a minister for 15 years in the Sheila Dikshit cabinet.
Former Delhi unit chief JP Agarwal had resigned recently after the newly-elected eight MLAs complained about his role to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress was reduced to just eight seats this year from 43 in 2008.
A former minister in the state, Baghel, who was programme coordinator of the party under PCC chief and Union Minister Charan Das Mahant, replaced him within a fortnight of the assembly election results that saw the Congress losing even in Chhattisgarh where it had pinned high hopes.
In Chhattisgarh, the Congress hoped to come to power under tribal leader Charan Das Mahant but could not defeat the ruling BJP despite getting 39 seats out of total 90. Mahant was not on the best of terms with former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi and the party had to take recourse to dinner diplomacy in Delhi to break the ice between them.
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