NEW DELHI: In preparation for the upcoming state assembly elections, the Indian National Congress on Thursday announced selection committees for Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir and tasked leaders like Ajay Maken, Manickam Tagore and Madhusudan Mistri with preparing lists of likely candidates for each state where elections will be held.
The formation of the four review committees came a day after Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said “the mood is in the Congress’s favour and a good performance by the Congress in the parliamentary elections will lead to change in the country.”
Congress Finance Minister Mahmoud Maken is the chairman of the Haryana State Screening Committee, which also includes Leader of the Lok Sabha Tagore, Gujarat MP Jignesh Mevani and Youth Congress leader Srinivas BV as members.
The Maharashtra committee will be headed by senior leader Mistri and will have Odisha MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, AICC general secretaries Mansoor Ali Khan and Dr Sirivella Prasad as members.
Senior leader Girish Chodankar will be the chairman of the Jharkhand State Screening Committee, which also has Bihar Congress leader Poonam Paswan and Uttarakhand leader Prakash Joshi as members.
Senior Punjab leader Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa will be the chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Commission, which also includes senior Indian National Congress leader Antony and All India Inter-Korean Congress (AICC) general secretary Sachin Rao as members.
Published August 1, 2024 16:05 IST
