The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday, 6 August announced a sweeping organisational overhaul of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC), appointing a new treasurer, 24 vice-presidents, 36 general secretaries, and more than 100 secretaries with immediate effect. The reshuffle, approved by the Congress President, signals a concerted push to strengthen the party's grassroots machinery in the hill state ahead of future electoral contests.

Key Appointments

Godavari Thapli has been named the new Treasurer of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee. The announcement was made through a press release issued by AICC General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, confirming that the Congress President had formally approved the proposal.

The 24 newly appointed vice-presidents include Hemash Kharakwal, Vijay Sarswat, Suryakant Dhasmana, Dhirendra Pratap, Rajkumar, Manoj Rawat, Satish Nainwal, Lalchand Sharma, Sahariyar Khan, C.P. Singh, Sanjay Paliwal, Rajendra Pal Singh, Sukhvinder Kaur, Rajeev Maharshi, Anupam Sharma, Hemant Bagadwal, Madhu Sanguri, Prem Bahukhandi, Darshan Lal, Sanjay Jait, Santosh Chauhan, Sujata Paul, Sanjay Saini, and Indu Mann.

General Secretaries and Secretaries

Among the 36 general secretaries named are Rajender Bhandari, Naveen Joshi, Abhishek Singh, Vijay Gunsola, Telu Ram, Pushkar Jain, Rakesh Lal Shah, Deep Sharma, Maqbul Qureshi, Amarjeet Singh, Yaqub Siddiqui, Rajendra Shah, Jaswant Singh Chauhan, Sumittar Bhullar, Anita Sharma, Jayendra Ramola, Sanjay Kirola, Rajendra Tangariya, Gaurav Chaudhary, Ganesh Upadhyay, Virender Pokhariyal, Neeraj Tyagi, Rakesh Singh Rana, Ishita Sedha, Vinod Chauhan, Rakesh Rajput, Rao Sher Mohammad, Rakesh Negi, Arvind Pradhan, Shobha Bisht, Deepa Arya, Anil Bhaskar, Ashwani Bahuguna, Narender Rana, Sonia Anand, and Sandeep Cheema.

In a significant expansion of the party's organisational structure, more than 100 leaders have been appointed as secretaries, drawn from different regions of the state. They include Mukesh Negi, Dharampal Singh, Bhupendra Negi, Pradeep Chaudhary, Sandeep Sehgal, Sagar Marwah, Prem Singh Kothari, Rakesh Thapa, Moolchand Sharma, Gopal Singh Bisht, Kundan Kumar Koli, Rajiv Chaudhary, Kanwar Singh Sayana, Brijesh Kothari, Bharat Singh Jhinkwan, Manish Rana, Mohan Kholia, Dinesh Pant, Bimla Semwal, Shyam Singh Chauhan, Sunder Dutt Joshi, Trilok Varma, Inder Pal Arya, Surya Prakash, Dan Singh Rana, Nehar Singh, Surender Panwar, Surender Singh Rawat, Ujjawal Rawat, Sudarshan Saha, Rajesh Walia, Sandeep Kumar Mittal, Devender Kanyal, Virender Rawat, Gurmeet Singh Prince, Manoj Baluni, Jagdish Chauyar, Narender Ausura, Sandeep Goswami, Sandeep Chaudhary, Sanjay Sharma, Satish Nath Goswami, and several others.

Why This Reshuffle Matters

The scale of the restructuring — spanning the treasurer's post down to the secretary level — points to a deliberate effort by the Congress to build a more representative and geographically spread organisation in Uttarakhand, a state currently governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Notably, the appointments reflect a broad cross-section of communities and regions within the state, suggesting the party is attempting to shore up its organisational depth at the district and block levels.

This comes amid the Congress's wider national effort to revitalise state units following electoral setbacks. The Uttarakhand overhaul is among the more extensive state-level restructurings the party has undertaken this year in terms of sheer numbers appointed.

What Happens Next

The new office-bearers are expected to take charge immediately, with the party likely to convene a state-level meeting to assign responsibilities and outline the political roadmap for the unit. All eyes will be on how quickly the reconstituted committee can translate organisational breadth into electoral mobilisation on the ground.