The newly appointed PCC chief Gulam Ahmed Mir today vowed to rejuvenate Congress in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mir replaced Prof Saifuddin Soz in a major reshuffle in the party ahead of a possible elevation of Rahul Gandhi as party president at the AICC session next month.
"We will work hard for strengthening the party. My goal will be to rejuvenate the party in the state. I am thankful to the party leadership for entrusting the faith in me by giving me this task," Mir told PTI.
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The leader, who is in the national capital, is expected to arrive here soon.
Congress today appointed five new PCC chiefs and one regional Congress Committee President.
The reshuffle had a clear imprint of Rahul Gandhi in handing over Ajay Maken the state leadership in Delhi, Ashok Chavan in Maharashtra, Ghulam Ahmed Mir in Jammu and Kashmir Bharatsinh Solanki in Gujarat and Uttam Reddy in Telangana.
AICC secretary Sanjay Nirupam has been made the chief of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee.
Mir born on 15th of December 1959 in Damhal village of Anantnag district in South Kashmir is armed with three decades of working experience with Congress across the country.
The 55-year old leader served as the Tourism Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in Omar Abdullah government. He was also Minister of State for Tourism and Minister of State for Roads and Buildings (independent charge) in Mufti Sayeed government from 2002-05.
Mir along with several politicians, police officers and IAS officers were held in Srinagar Sex scam and later exonerated by the Court in 2011.
He was elected from Doru constituency in South Kashmir twice in 2002 and 2008 polls on Congress ticket but lost elections in 2014 by just over 150 votes.
A graduate, Mir started his political career as a youth coordinator in 1983. He was deputed as observer to Jalesar Assembly Constituency in 1984 and Kokrajihar district on direction of Indian Youth Congress (IYC).
He attended the historic Bombay session of AICC as NUSI member in 1985 and was later appointed Youth Coordinators programme in 1986.
Mir was appointed Joint Secretary in J&K Congress and tasked to look after Amethi Constituency in UP. He lost the Assembly election in 1996 and was appointed as General Secretary of State Congress in 1988.
