New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has constituted a new Media Department for the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee. The list of appointments was issued on Monday by Pawan Khera, Member of the Congress Working Committee and Chairman of the Media and Publicity Department of the AICC.
The newly formed Media Department includes vice chairpersons, regional coordinators, state spokespersons, state media panellists, district spokespersons, a head of research, state researchers and state publicity coordinators.
Priyanka Gupta and Sanjeev Kumar Singh have been appointed as Vice Chairpersons of the Media Department. Six Regional Coordinators have been named to oversee different zones of the state: Moin Hasan Khan (West Zone), Rajendra Sagar (Braj Zone), Prem Narayan Pal (Bundelkhand Zone), Dr Purvi Verma (Awadh Zone), Om Prakash Saroj (Prayag Zone) and Punit Pathak (East Zone).
A large team of state spokespersons has been constituted. The list includes Annu Prasad Paswan, Siddhi Shree, Sachin Rawat, Ramesh Kashyap, Alimulla Khan, Mohd Farhan, Meraj Husain, Syed Mazhar Hussain, SU Frooqui, Umashankar Pandey, Anshu Awasthi, Dr Hilal Naqvi, Pradeep Singh Advocate, Achintya Tirpathi, Man Singh Chauhan, Pawan Dixit, Ravi Pratap Singh, Vishal Lodhi Rajput, Prof Ashok Kumar Kaithal, Prashant Singh Raickwar, Gaurav Jain, Prerna Zubairi, Dr Rahul Rajbhar, Piyush Yadav, Minhaj Khan, Anil Yadav, Pankhuri Pathak, Ishan Tyagi, Nighat Abbass, Dolly Sharma, Abhimanyu Tyagi, Pratima Gond, SK Nigam, Amar Habibullah, Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati, Vijay Kumar Pal, Dr Umesh Gond, Amar Deep Jain, Ashish Anand, Aqib Nadeem Qureshi, Arvind Singh, Suraj Bhan Singh, Dr Ratna N. Pandey, Asif Jah and Sadaf Jafar.
The state media Panelists include Murli Manohar, Usha Rani Kori, Saroj Bharti, Rajkumar Maurya, Malik Javed Ansari, Kanhaiya Lal Yadav Bhartiya, Ram Roop Patel, Arshad Raza, Hammam Wahid, Chandini Ahmad, Haseeb Ahmad, Rajesh Singh, Harinath Upadhyay, Ashok Singh, Anil Sharma, Anuj Gautam, Ajay Chandra Chaubey, Vinayak Dhar Dwivedi, Rajesh Tiwari, Agha Yunus and Tamjeed Ahmad. District spokespersons named in the list are Rahul Rai, Himanshu Chaudhary, Vivek Ojha, Shiv Kumar Gautam, Mohit Shyam, Dr Yashwant Singh and Savitri Tripathi. Hilal Naqvi has been designated as Head of Research.
The State Researchers team comprises Varun Shekhar Singh, Kanchan Varshney, Mohammad D Afzal, Karan Kumar Kushwaha, Abhimanyu Kumar, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Mohit Pratap Singh, Teerath Raj Mishra, Ritesh Yadav, Akash Kumar Chaurasiy and Abhishekh Tyagi.
State Publicity Coordinators include Akshay Singh, Aman Kumar, Anurag Praksh, Sangita Srivastava, Prince Kumar Morya, Vaibhavish Chandra, Shiv Murti Yadav, Umesh Kumar Gautam, Shamim Uddin, Sandeep Kumar and Anjali Upadhyay.
The appointments were announced by the AICC headquarters, New Delhi. The reconstitution of the Media Department is aimed at strengthening the party’s communication, publicity and research mechanisms in Uttar Pradesh.
–IANS
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