Bengaluru: Dinesh Gundu Rao, MLA, who has been appointed as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) took charge this afternoon at a function organised at Palace Grounds here.

The incumbent KPCC President Deputy CM G. Parameshwara handed over the party flag to Dinesh. Eshwar B. Khandre, MLA for Bhalki and former Minister, also assumed office as the Working President of KPCC.