The Congress Working Committee and the AICC secretariat were today reconstituted by Party President Sonia Gandhi. She dropped veterans like Arjun Singh and Mohsina Kidwai,Malikarjun Kharge,V Kishore Chandra Deo and G Venkatswami, and inducted some new faces in the highest policy making body of the party. The exercise came three months after the authorisation given to her also saw the exit of CWC member K Keshava Rao who was in-charge of poll bound West Bengal as also Jharkhand.Those retained in the CWC besides Rahul Gandhi are senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni and senior leaders Motilal Vora, Digvijay Singh, Janardan Dwivedi.Oscar Fernandes has been promoted to CWC and made a General Secretary. Senior leader Ahmed Patel, who retains his position as political secretary to Congress President, will continue to be part of the CWC, which will now have 19 members including Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Home Minister P Chidambaram, who is a member of the elite Core Group, has been made a Permanent Invitee for the CWC. Dropped from the CWC Arjun Singh and Mohsina Kidwai find a place in the CWC as permanent invitees.Satyavrat Chaturvedi,has been removed as a permanent invitee.Besides the incumbents, Rahul Gandhi, Digvijay Singh, B K Hariprasad, Ghulma Nabi Azad, Janardan Dwivedi and Mukul Wasnik have been retained while Birender Singh, Madhusudan Mistry and Oscar Fernandes are the new General Secretaries .