New Delhi: In a shake-up ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi divested General Secretary Ambika Soni of the charge of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, dropped another General Secretary Nawal Kishore Sharma and appointed former Chief Ministers Digvijay Singh and Ashok Gehlot as special invitees to the Working Committee.

Two secretaries were also appointed and five other special invitees were inducted into the party's Working Committee in the first such exercise after the party's debacle in three States.

The reshuffle was undertaken to tone up the functioning of the party to face the coming Lok Sabha polls, AICC (All India Congress Committee) General Secretary Oscar Fernandes told reporters in New Delhi.