On Saturday, the Congress announced that 45 of Rajasthan’s 50 District Congress Committee (DCC) Presidents had been appointed as part of its ongoing Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan. The five remaining districts still await final appointments.
The new district leaders will take up their posts immediately. K.C. Venugopal, General Secretary (Organisation) of the AICC, said the selection process was rooted in a systematic organisational review. For each district, external observers carried out on‑the‑ground evaluations, met with party volunteers and local stakeholders, and compiled detailed reports.
These reports were then examined individually by each observer together with senior leaders before the final recommendations were presented to the Congress President for sign‑off.
Twelve current Members of the Legislative Assembly have been named district presidents, bolstering the party’s structure with representatives who already hold electoral mandates. They are: Vikas Chaudhary (Ajmer Rural), Arjun Singh Bamaniya (Banswara), Zakir Hussain Gesawat (Didwana‑Kuchaman), Sanjay Jatav (Dholpur), Vidyadhar Chaudhary (Jaipur Rural West), Ganesh Ghoghra (Dungarpur), Rita Chaudhary (Jhunjhunu), Geeta Barwad (Jodhpur Rural), Ghanshyam Mahar (Karauli), Indira Meena (Sawai Madhopur), Rupinder Singh Kunnur (Sriganganagar), and Manoj Meghwal (Churu).
Five former MLAs have also been given district posts: Ramlal Jat (Bhilwara Rural), Indraj Gurjar (Kotputli‑Behror), Raghuveer Singh Meena (Udaipur Rural), Gopal Meena (Jaipur Rural East), and Rajkumar Jaipal (Ajmer City).
In eight districts—Bharatpur, Bikaner Rural, Dausa, Jaipur Rural, Kota Rural, Sikar, and Udaipur City—the party has retained the incumbents. Sikar, the home district of PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasara, is among those where the same president has been re‑appointed.
Appointments for Jaipur City, Rajsamand, Pratapgarh, Baran, and Jhalawar remain pending. In Baran and Jhalawar the selection process was stalled by the Anta by‑election, while internal factional disputes appear to be delaying the appointments in Jaipur, Rajsamand and Pratapgarh.
Among the 45 new appointees, seven are women. Community representation is diverse: eight belong to the General category, nine to Scheduled Castes (SC), eight to Scheduled Tribes (ST), 16 to Other Backward Classes (OBC), and four to minority groups.
Observers from outside Rajasthan drafted panels of six candidates for each district after engaging with party workers. The final lists were reviewed by K.C. Venugopal in consultation with State In‑charge Sukhjinder Randhawa, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasara, opposition leader Tika Ram Jully, and other senior figures before the Congress President’s approval.
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