In Congress Central Election Committee rejig, Kharge drops veterans, gives state faces a leg-up | Political Pulse News

The members of the earlier CEC have been former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Antony, Ambika Soni, Girija Vyas, Dwivedi, Moily, Mukul Wasnik and Mohsina Kidwai apart from common secretary (organisation) Okay C Venugopal.

All of them barring the Gandhis, Soni and Venugopal have been dropped from the brand new CEC.

The brand new members of the 16-member CEC embody Congress chief in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Salman Khurshid, Madhusudan Mistry, N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister T S Singh Deo, Karnataka minister Okay J George, ex-Uttarakhand Congress chief Pritam Singh, Kishanganj MP Mohammad Jawed, Rajya Sabha MP Amee Yajnik, P L Punia and Madhya Pradesh MLA Omkar Markam.

Their induction is a serious elevation for Congress leaders like Reddy, Deo, George, Singh, Jawed, Yajnik and Markam, who will now be on the celebration excessive desk as members of the high-powered panel. Mistry was the top of the Congress Central Election Authority, which carried out the celebration’s presidential elections final 12 months. Punia was until just lately the AICC in-charge of Chhattisgarh.

Earlier on Monday, the Congress management despatched a sign that it was making ready to wage an aggressive marketing campaign for the Telangana Meeting elections, asserting that Hyderabad would be the venue of the primary assembly of the rejigged CWC on September 16-17. This will probably be adopted by a rally, the place the celebration will kickstart the marketing campaign asserting 5 huge election guarantees, which it calls “ensures”.

The Congress believes that the two-day CWC session, adopted by a rally and an “modern yatra” to Telangana’s all 119 Meeting constituencies, would set the tempo for the celebration’s marketing campaign. The concept behind the three-day blitz is to set a story that the celebration is taking the Telangana polls critically and can make each effort to unseat the Okay Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS authorities.

The Congress leaders from the state had been speaking about “constructive” inner survey outcomes to venture a story that the celebration was gaining floor in opposition to the ruling BRS and an aggressive BJP.

Venugopal stated the CWC will meet on September 16 adopted by a gathering of the prolonged CWC – which would come with the celebration’s CMs, CLP leaders and state unit chiefs – the subsequent day.

On September 17, which is widely known because the Telangana Nationwide Integration Day, the Congress will maintain a rally in Hyderabad, the place it can announce 5 ballot ensures. After the rally, Kharge will “flag off the cavalcade for all CWC members, invitees, PCC chiefs and CLP leaders to go to every of the 119 Meeting constituencies of Telangana”, Venugopal stated.

He stated all of the leaders, barring the MPs who must rush to Delhi to attend the particular session of Parliament, will maintain employees’ conferences and take part in door-to-door distribution of a “cost sheet” in opposition to the BRS authorities. “After lunch, they are going to work together with native influencers. The occasion will culminate with a march to a distinguished statue of Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar or Komaram Bheem within the constituency,” he stated.