New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday assigned Ajoy Kumar the additional charge of Delhi till the completion of the civic body elections here as the regular AICC-incharge of the party's unit in the capital was busy with the Gujarat assembly polls.

In a statement, the party said Shaktisinh Gohil, AICC incharge, Delhi, is busy with the Gujarat Assembly elections and the Congress president has approved the proposal of assigning additional charge of Delhi to Ajoy Kumar, AICC Incharge (Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland) till the completion of Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, with immediate effect.

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The party also constituted a three-member screening committee headed by AICC general secretary Avinash Pande for the upcoming elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

While Pande is the chairman of the panel, party MP K Jayakumar and Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin are its members.

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Polling for the municipal elections in Delhi will be held on December 4 and the votes will be counted on December 7, State Election Commissioner Vijay Dev had announced on Friday.

This will be the first civic election after the fresh delimitation exercise, and the much-awaited poll will be held in the gap between the two phases of the Gujarat assembly elections, which will take place on December 1 and 5.

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