New Delhi: Congress has organised a campaign committee in view of the forthcoming Parliament election. In the fifty member committee, Sonia Gandhi has been chosen as the Chairperson while Rahul Gandhi as Vice Chairman. This was announced by AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi in a statement released to the press.
Days before Congress had announced that the party campaign for the proposed election would be carried out under the leadership of party vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, V Narayanasamy, Jitender Singh, Rajeev Shukla, Manish Tewari and J D Seelam are chosen as members of the committee.
Other key members of the committee are Senior ministers A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Salman Khurshid, Kamal Nath, Anand Sharma and Jairam Ramesh; former Chief Ministers Sheila Dikshit and Ashok Gehlot and senior party leaders Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora, Janardan Dwivedi, Madhusudan Mistri, Digvijay Singh, Ambika Soni and B K Hariprasad.
Neither Chief Ministers nor PCC chiefs are considered for the committee. CLP leaders are also not figured in committee.