Close on the heels of the appointment of five State unit chiefs on Monday, the Congress is gearing up to elevate three close associates of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi as general secretaries.

Two Congress leaders confirmed to The Hindu that Mr. Gandhi’s team members, who had worked closely with him on the restructuring project for the youth organisations, are likely to be promoted to the rank of general secretary in the party organisation. While former MPs Jitendra Singh and Meenakshi Natarajan served as secretaries of the party attached to Mr. Gandhi when he was general secretary in charge of the youth organisations, sitting MP Rajeev Satav was president of the Indian Youth Congress till December 2014. The three, along with Mr. Satav’s predecessor Ashok Tanwar, were instrumental in implementing Mr. Gandhi’s project of introducing elections in the NSUI and the IYC. “All appointments are part of a process initiated by Mr. Gandhi and taken with his concurrence,” a senior party leader said.