Hyderabad, Feb. 15 -- The All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Meenakshi Natarajan as AICC in-charge of Telangana, on Friday, February 14.

Deepa Dasmunsi, who has been serving as the in-charge of Telangana since even before the 2023 assembly elections, is reportedly being given a bigger role in West Bengal in view of the upcoming assembly elections there.

Meenakshi was a former MP from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, who won the 2009 Lok Sabha election against her nearest rival and BJP candidate Laxminarayan Pandey with a margin of 30,000 votes. She was known to have given the slogan 'Pradesh Elections'.

She served as a member of the committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice, and o...