Shimla, Jan. 4 -- Women will head district committees for Congress in two districts - Mandi and Bilaspur - as the Congress high command appointed presidents for 11 districts of the state nearly 13 months after the dissolution of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee.

Presidents are yet to be appointed in Shimla Rural and Kinnaur districts in wake of a large number of contenders in both these districts.

In Mandi, Champa Thakur, daughter of veteran Congress leader and former Himachal Pradesh health minister Thakur Kaul Singh - an eight-time MLA from the Drang Assembly constituency, has been appointed district president. Kaul Singh Thakur was close to former state president Pratibha Singh. However, Champa Thakur has remained neutral sinc...