<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday appointed technocrats Sam Pitroda and M Rajeev Gowda as chairpersons of the Overseas and the Research departments of the party, respectively.<br /><br />Sonia also renamed the Scheduled Tribes Department as the Adivasi Congress and appointed former Union minister V Kishore Chandra Deo as its chairperson. The Congress also created a new Fishermen department and named T N Prathapan its chairperson.<br /><br />Deo will be assisted by five vice chairpersons — Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya, Shyam Sunder Hansdah, Bellaih Naik, Manoj Mandavi and Atuwa Munda, AICC general secretary (Organisation) Janardan Dwivedi announced in a statement released here on Thursday.<br /><br />The Research Department to be chaired by Gowda, a former professor at the IIM-Bengaluru and a Rajya Sabha member, subsumes three other departments — Research and Reference ,Research and Coordination and the Department of Policy and Planning and Coordination.</p>
<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday appointed technocrats Sam Pitroda and M Rajeev Gowda as chairpersons of the Overseas and the Research departments of the party, respectively.<br /><br />Sonia also renamed the Scheduled Tribes Department as the Adivasi Congress and appointed former Union minister V Kishore Chandra Deo as its chairperson. The Congress also created a new Fishermen department and named T N Prathapan its chairperson.<br /><br />Deo will be assisted by five vice chairpersons — Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya, Shyam Sunder Hansdah, Bellaih Naik, Manoj Mandavi and Atuwa Munda, AICC general secretary (Organisation) Janardan Dwivedi announced in a statement released here on Thursday.<br /><br />The Research Department to be chaired by Gowda, a former professor at the IIM-Bengaluru and a Rajya Sabha member, subsumes three other departments — Research and Reference ,Research and Coordination and the Department of Policy and Planning and Coordination.</p>
