New leadership of Kerala state Congress to assume office today
T'puram: The newly appointed
KPCC president
, three working presidents and the new UDF convener will assume office at a function at Indira Bhavan on Monday. All India Congress Committee (AICC) has asked all functionaries to attend the function.Outgoing president K Sudhakaran will hand over the charge to successor Sunny Joseph at the function.
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