Congress names Political Affairs Committee

New Delhi, May 24 (Agency) The Congress on Tuesday constituted a Political Affairs Committee headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to oversee the implementation of the Udaipur declaration of the party. Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam nabi Azad are among its members. The eight-member committee also has Ambika Soni, K C Venugopal, Digvijay Singh, Anand Sharma, and Jitendra Singh. The party also announced Task Force 2024 and a Central Planning Group for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh are among members of the Task Force. It also has Mukul Wasnik, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Sunil Kanugolu.

Each members of the Task Force will be assigned specific tasks related to organisation, communication and media, outreach, finance and election management. The teams will be notified soon, the Congress said. The Task Force will also follow up on the Udaipur ‘Nav Sankalp’ declaration. The Central planning group for coordination of Bharat Jodo Yatra has Digvijay Singh, Sachin Pilot and Shashi Tharoor among members. Ravneet Singh Bittu, K J George, Jothi Mani, Pradyut Bordoloi, Jitu Patwari and Saleem Ahmed are also in the group. Members of the task force and all frontal organisations are also ex-officio members of this group.