SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 17: One of the senior most leaders and senior advocate of Dhanbad, Brajendra Prasad Singh, has been appointed as the chairman of the Jharkhand State Congress Disciplinary Committee.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (organization) KC Venugopal has constituted a Disciplinary Committee of Jharkhand state in which Dhanbad’s Brjendra Prasad Singh has been appointed as chairman while Keshav Mahto Kamlesh, Kalicharan Munda, Anandi Brahma, Shamsher Alam and Amulya Niraj Khalko are members.
Brajendra Prasad Singh, the outgoing Dhanbad district president, has returned to the state organization after 10 years. He has been heading the Dhanbad district Congress president since 2012 and this time, he refused to state and national high command to continue further on the post.
Singh was the spokesperson of the Jharkhand State Congress committee when Thomas Hansda became the president of the party in 2004. When Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu became the state president, Brajendra Prasad Singh was made the general secretary.
Sukhdev Bhagat after becoming the state president sent Brajendra Prasad Singh to Dhanbad as district president in 2012 to make the organization strong in the coal belt. Since then, Brajendra Prasad Singh has been holding the post of district president.
Under his regime as district president, Congress won the Jharia assembly seat after 45 years. No Congress candidate had won the Jharia seat since 1977. In the 2019 assembly election, Purnima Neeraj Singh snatched the seat from BJP.
“The party had contested on three seats in Dhanbad in the 2019 assembly election in which it won Jharia and lost Baghmara seat merely by 500 votes while our candidate got over 90,000 votes on Dhanbad Sadar seat,” said Brajendra Prasad Singh.
