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Two deputy chief ministers were also sworn in along with the chief minister. They include Keshav Maurya — who recently lost the election, and Brajesh Pathak.

Deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma in the previous government, has been dropped this time.

Meanwhile, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of party general secretaries and state in-charges on March 26 to discuss organisational elections, the party’s membership drive and the current political situation besides planning agitational programmes. Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal will chair the meeting at the party headquarters and all general secretaries and state in-charges states have been asked to attend.

Sonia Gandhi, who is likely to attend the meeting, will review the progress of membership drive so far as well as the party’s future agitational programmes. The meeting comes in the wake of the party’s humiliating defeat in the recent assembly elections in five states.

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