New Delhi: R K Dhawan, Mohsina Kidwai and Vayalar Ravi were among the general secretaries dropped today (Jul 17, 2004) and Margaret Alva, Salman Khurshid and Satyvrata Chaturvedi took their place as Congress president Sonia Gandhi revamped the AICC (All India Congress Committee) and the party's working committee.

Rahul Gandhi, who had expressed willingness to work for the organisation without having any post, did not figure in the new list of office bearers of the AICC nor did any first time MP get a place in it except former Delhi Minister Ajay Maken who has been made a secretary.

The other general secretaries are Ambika Soni and Mukul Wasnik, both of whom were in the earlier set-up as also Digvijay Singh, Ashok Gehlot and Janardhan Dwivedi who were earlier holding independent charge of various States as special invitees to the CWC (Congress Working Committee).

Among the dropped general secretaries, Ravi had emerged as a front-runner for the post of Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha.

In the reconstituted set-up, Ahmed Patel continues to be in the powerful post of political secretary to the Congress president while Ambika Soni has been allotted Congress president's office as part of her various responsibilities but she has been dropped as chairperson of the media department. Girija Vyas, former Rajasthan PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee) chief, has been given this post.