New Delhi: A 12-member Coordination Committee has been constituted by Congress to finalise the campaign programme and strategy of UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, who will file his nomination on
28 June.
The Committee will meet tomorrow and is expected to finetune the campaign of Mukherjee, who will also step down as Finance Minister on the same day.
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Besides Mukherjee, the Committee has senior ministers and party leaders as its members.
The ministerial members are A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Ambika Soni, Rajiv Shukla, Pawan Kumar Bansal and P S Ghatowar.
The other members are Ahmed Patel, Political Secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Janardan Dwivedi, Oscar Fernandes, Girija Vyas and P J Kurien.
Mukherjee will file his papers for the 19 July Presidential poll on 28 June, AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters today after the CWC meeting which bid a fond farewell to the Congress stalwart.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi will be among top UPA leaders who will propose Mukherjee’s name when he files his papers.
He is expected to launch his campaign from Chennai on 30 June and then visit Hyderabad and Bangalore the next day.
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