Jammu, Aug. 7 -- Just three days after the Congress high command brokered a temporary ceasefire between rival factions within the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC), dissident leader and former JKPCC president Vikar Rasool Wani has been assigned another important organisational responsibility outside the Union Territory.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary K C Venugopal has appointed Wani as an AICC observer for the party's Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan in West Bengal, a move being viewed within Congress circles as an attempt by the high command to keep the former JKPCC chief away from Jammu and Kashmir and prevent a fresh escalation of factional tensions.
Wani himself announced the new assignment on social ...