The Congress in Kerala Wednesday welcomed the party's decision appointing Priyanka Gandhi as AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh East, but said it should have come earlier.
"Priyanka Gandhi is a person with public acceptance. For a long time the Congress workers had been wanting that she should come into the leadership role," Congress' state president Mullapally Ramachandran told reporters here.
"The decision has been delayed. It should have come earlier," he said.
Welcoming the decision, Opposition leader in the state assembly Ramesh Chennithala said Priyanka's appointment as AICC general secretary will further stregthen the party.
The joint leadership of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka will give a new energy and enthusiasm to all congress workers, he said in a statement here