India, March 19 -- The Congress on Tuesday appointed Kutumba MLA Rajesh Kumar as the president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC), replacing Akhilesh Prasad Singh.

A notification for the same was issued by AICC general secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday evening. Ram is son of former Congress MP Dilkeshwar Ram.

The development comes at a time when the party is trying to garner votes from the marginalised sections of Bihar ahead of the assembly polls.

A senior party leader aware of the developments, hailed the move to appoint two senior leaders as the party in-charge in the state.

"The AICC said they wanted to help the deprived sections in Bihar by appointing Krishna Allavaru, a backward caste leader, as the AICC in-charge of...