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Rahul Gandhi sets up three Congress committees on poll-related issues; panels include AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Ahmed Patel

Press Trust of India • August 25, 2018, 18:08:35 IST
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Party chief Rahul Gandhi formed the key nine-member Core Group Committee ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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Rahul Gandhi sets up three Congress committees on poll-related issues; panels include AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Ahmed Patel

New Delhi: Gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Congress on Saturday formed three crucial committees to look after coordination, manifesto and publicity in the polls, with the old guard maintaining its position in the core set up under party president Rahul Gandhi. [caption id=“attachment_5024081” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]File image of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. PTI File image of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. PTI[/caption] Rahul formed the key nine-member Core Group Committee comprising A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P Chidambaram, Ashok Gehlot, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Surjewala and K C Veugopal. While all those in the Core Committee have worked under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, those in the publicity and manifesto committees comprise old-timers as well as some fresh faces. The 19-member Manifesto Committee comprises veterans like former finance minister P Chidambaram, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former union ministers Jairam Ramesh, Salman Khurshid, Shashi Tharoor and Kumari Selja, besides former Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma.

Congress President Shri @RahulGandhi has constituted the following Committee’s for the Lok Sabha Election 2019:

-Core Group Committee
-Manifesto Committee
-Publicity Committee pic.twitter.com/g0XkcJnGf2

— AICC Communications (@AICCMedia) August 25, 2018

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal, party’s women’s wing head Sushmita Dev, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Gowda and Tamradhwaj Sahu, who is also the party’s backward class department chief, are also part of the panel. The others are Bindu Krishnan, Raghuveer Meena, Bhalchandra Mungekar, Meenakshi Natarajan, Rajni Patil, Sam Pitroda, Sachin Rao and Lalithesh Tripathi. Rahul also formed a committee comprising 13 leaders who will look after the party’s publicity during the elections, All India Congress Committee general secretary Ashok Gehlot said. The Publicity Committee includes Randeep Surjewala, former ministers Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari and Rajeev Shukla, besides Bhakta Charan Das, Praveen Chakravarty, Milind Deora, Kumar Ketkar, Pawan Khera, VD Satheesan, Jaiveer Shergill, party’s social media head Divya Spandana and former Rajya Sabha member Pramod Tiwari. Announcing the committees, Gehlot said with the constitution of these panels, the party is in election mode and will start the work of putting up a manifesto and draw strategy for publicity and coordination. The decision by Rahul Gandhi shows he has chosen against any drastic overhaul. Party leaders said he has opted for a blend of young and old leaders, taking the experience of the veterans and the energy of the youth together. Sources said that convenors of these panels will be announced later.

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