Bengaluru: Dinesh Gundu Rao has been appointed the new president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). Rao is a five-time MLA from Gandinagar constituency in Bengaluru city.

Similarly, Eshwar Khandre has been nominated as working president of KPCC. Both the appointments were made by Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

The Congress Party appreciates the hard work done by G Parameshwara, who successfully led the party for the last eight years and is stepping down from his responsibility as Karnataka PCC president, said Ashok Gehlot, General Secretary, AICC.