jajpur in a surprise move health minister raghu sharma was appointed aicc incharge of gujarat daman diu and dadra nagar haveli with immediate effect by the congress central leadership late thursday nightaicc general secretary organisation k c venugopal issued a statement on behalf of congress president sonia gandhi in this regard sharma had held a meeting with the top brass of the party in new delhi on september 24it is believed a plan to appoint him gujarat incharge was discussed thenformer deputy chief minister sachin pilot too had met the congress central leadership in delhi on the same day initially there were talks among congressmen about pilot being considered by aicc as the gujarat inchargegujarat would be going to assembly elections by december next year before the 2017 gujarat election chief minister ashok gehlot who was not holding any constitutional or party position then was sent as incharge of the state which has been giving a tough time to the party since 1985 gehlot had brought congress closer to victory in 2017 but bjp has remained undefeated there since 1995sharmas appointment as incharge of a state heading for assembly elections puts a question mark on whether he would be able to continue as a minister in the gehlot cabinet in the corona times handling the health portfolio in itself remains a fulltime job and may make it difficult for sharma to also head a pollbound statean expansion and reshuffle of the council of ministers has been long overdue in rajasthan with pressure building from the pilot camp gehlot is expected to rejig the cabinet by accommodating new faces and dropping a few existing ones this monthefforts made to contact sharma for a reaction failed as his mobile phone remained unanswered