Congress has appointed Supriya Srinet as the chairperson of the party’s social media and digital platform with immediate effect. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) gave information about this by releasing a press note on Monday (20 June 2022). Meanwhile, party general secretary K.C. Venugopal informed that Supriya Srinet has been appointed as the President in place of Rohan Gupta. Former chairperson Rohan Gupta has been made the spokesperson of AICC with immediate effect.
Supriya, who was the national spokesperson of the Congress, contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Maharajganj parliamentary seat of Uttar Pradesh on a Congress ticket, but she lost the election. Before joining politics, Supriya was associated with journalism and during this time she worked in different institutions for about 17 years. Before joining politics, Supriya was working as an executive editor for ET Now channel. In March 2019, he left the job after getting a ticket from the Congress. Supriya has been quite vocal against the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress leader Supriya Shrinate has been appointed as a Chairperson of Social media and digital platforms in the Communications dept with immediate effect pic.twitter.com/tzOwYgFkgl
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Father was also an MP: Supriya’s father Harsh Vardhan was also a former Congress MP. His father had defeated BJP leader Pankaj Choudhary from Maharajganj seat in 2014. Harsh Vardhan was MP from this seat twice. Harsh Vardhan contested from Maharajganj seat a total of six times, he contested thrice on Janata Dal (1989, 1991, 1998), Congress twice (2009, 2014) and once on Bahujan Samaj Party (1996) ticket. Although he won only twice. In 1989, he won the elections from Janata Dal and in 2009 on Congress party ticket. He died in the year 2016.
Command of media-publicity to Pawan Khera: Earlier on Sunday (19 June 2022), Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera was given the command of media and publicity department. Pawan Khera was said to be angry with the Congress high command’s neglect in the Rajya Sabha elections.
Pawan Khera himself had tweeted about his displeasure. Kheda had said after the announcement of the ticket that perhaps there must have been some deficiency in his penance. After which Pawan Khera has now been appointed as the Chairman of the Media and Publicity Cell of the New Communication Department.