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Thu, 05 September 2019

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi has reorganised the party's data analytics department.

The department, headed by Praveen Chakravarty, had led the Congress campaign on its minimum income guarantee promise in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, as also its membership drive.

Its forecasts of the party on its way to get over 120 seats were proved incorrect. Knives were out within the party against Chakravarty, considered close to Rahul Gandhi.

Now, Sonia Gandhi has demoted the standalone department to a "cell" within a department.

In a letter dated Tuesday, party general secretary K C Venugopal stated that the department will now function as a "technology and data cell within the organisation department' of the party.

Chakravarty would continue to head the cell, but will now need to take approvals from organisation department heads, instead of the party chief.

-- Business Standard

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