Northeast rejig: Rahul Gandhi reconstitutes party's co-ordination committee

Assembly polls are scheduled in Mizoram in November-December

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hopeful of winning most of the 25 Lok Sabha seats of the northeastern states in the 2019 elections. After a lacklustre performance in recent Assembly polls in the northeastern states, Congress has finally woken up to the challenge. Until recently, the Congress units in all the northeastern states were handled by its Rajasthan leader C P Joshi. 

But Joshi didn't endear himself to the Congress workers in the region, and has now been removed. On Tuesday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi reconstituted the party’s northeast coordination committee with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its