{"id":138810,"date":"2025-05-26T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=138810"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:30:56","slug":"exciting-leadership-shift-gaurav-gogoi-takes-helm-as-assam-congress-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=138810","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Leadership Shift: Gaurav Gogoi Takes Helm as Assam Congress President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-136520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/New-Logo-Smal-2.jpg?resize=173%2C48&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=137158\">Gaurav Gogoi<\/a>, a Member of Parliament and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, has been appointed as the president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) as of Monday. KC Venugopal, the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), confirmed this appointment in an official statement, stating that Gogoi has taken on the role of chief of the Assam Congress.<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138812\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Gaurav Gogoi Takes Helm as Assam Congress President\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138812\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mallika-1600-x-900-px-2025-02-16T182633.369-2025-02-caba9868c9882a1afda4db67c89795d5-16x9-1.webp?resize=697%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gaurav Gogoi Takes Helm as Assam Congress President\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mallika-1600-x-900-px-2025-02-16T182633.369-2025-02-caba9868c9882a1afda4db67c89795d5-16x9-1.webp?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mallika-1600-x-900-px-2025-02-16T182633.369-2025-02-caba9868c9882a1afda4db67c89795d5-16x9-1.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Gaurav Gogoi Takes Helm as Assam Congress President<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Additionally, the AICC has named three new working presidents: Jakir Hussain Sikdar, Roselina Tirkey, and Pradip Sarkar, further expanding the leadership team within the organization. The appointments mark a strategic move for the Congress party in Assam, as it aims to strengthen its position in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaurav Gogoi, a Member of Parliament and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, has been appointed as the president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) as of Monday. KC Venugopal, the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), confirmed this appointment in an official statement, stating that Gogoi has taken on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","jnews_video_option_group":[[]],"override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":"News Desk :"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200],"tags":[46587,46598,29853,46585,46588,23842,46599,46596,46592,46593,46600,46583,26047,46597,46589,46586,10649,46595,46591,46584,46590,46594],"class_list":["post-138810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assam","tag-aicc","tag-aicc-official-statement","tag-all-india-congress-committee","tag-apcc-appointment","tag-assam-congress-chief","tag-assam-politics","tag-assam-pradesh-congress-news","tag-congress-organization-expansion","tag-congress-party-leadership","tag-congress-party-strategy","tag-congress-party-updates","tag-deputy-leader-of-the-opposition","tag-gaurav-gogoi","tag-gaurav-gogoi-leadership","tag-jakir-hussain-sikdar","tag-kc-venugopal","tag-member-of-parliament","tag-political-appointments-assam","tag-pradip-sarkar","tag-president-assam-pradesh-congress-committee","tag-roselina-tirkey","tag-strengthening-congress-in-assam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157227,"url":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=157227","url_meta":{"origin":138810,"position":0},"title":"CJP Team Chased and Attacked at Rajasthan School \u2014 BJP Accused","author":"ASSAM TIMES POST","date":"August 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A team of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders, led by co\u2011founder Ashutosh Ranka, was attacked and driven out of Rampura Kanwarpura village in Jaipur\u2019s Bagru assembly area on Friday, August 21, 2026, while attempting to inspect a government primary school, party sources said. 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