Ahead of polls, Mallikarjun Kharge drops Manmohan Singh, other veteran Congress leaders from Central Election Committee
Manmohan Singh. Kharge recast the CEC on Monday, inducting various leaders and removing senior leaders like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and other veterans like A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi, and M Veerappa Moily.
CEC is headed by the Congress President who selects the party's candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Also read: INDIA bloc meet LIVE updates: Floor leaders to meet at Mallikarjun Kharge's residence today According to a release by the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the committee includes Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Adhir Rajan Chowdhary, Salman Khurshid, Madhusudan Mistry, N Uttam Kumar Reddy, TS Singh Deo, KJ George, Pritam Singh, Mohammad Jawed, Amee Yajnik, PL Punia, Omkar Markam, KC Venugopal.
Among the new faces, new questions have been set up from each state, former Uttarakhand Congress chief Pritam Singh, from West Bengal Adhir Rajan Chowdhary, Bihar MP Mohammed Jawed and Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Amee Yajnik, besides former MP from Uttar Pradesh PL Punia and General Secretary of Madhya Pradesh Congress, Former Member of Rajya Sabha Madhusudan Mistry, and Lok Sabha MP from Telangana Uttam Kumar Reddy have also been included as members of the all-important panel. Also read: Sonia Gandhi to convene Congress Parliamentary strategy meeting tomorrow to plan for special Parliament session Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister T S Singh Deo, and former Union minister Salman Khurshid who has been given weightage, besides Karnataka minister KJ George, are also members of the key panel.
The development comes ahead of key Assembly elections in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. The Assembly polls in five states-- Chhattisgarh, Madhya
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