2024 Lok Sabha polls: Congress forms five-member committee to forge alliances with I.N.D.I.A bloc partners

Even as I.N.D.I.A bloc leaders are meeting today to deliberate on a blueprint for a joint campaign and seat-sharing arrangement for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Tuesday formed a five-member committee to hold discussions on forging alliances with other parties for the polls. “In the run-up to the general election 2024, the Congress president has constituted a National Alliance Committee with immediate effect,” the party said in a statement. “Senior party leader Mukul Wasnik will be the convener of the committee,” it added. Other members of the National Alliance Committee are former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel. Former union minister Salman Khurshid and senior leader Mohan Prakash are also members. Sources said the panel will look into all aspects of forming alliances with other parties. Meanwhile, the I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting began at the Ashoka Hotel in the national capital with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in attendance. With inputs from agencies