Sonia Gandhi forms Punjab Congress campaign, manifesto panels; Manpreet Badal is manifesto co-chair
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 11
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday constituted a 25-member campaign committee and a 20-member manifesto committee for the February 14 Punjab elections, appointing state finance minister Manpreet Badal the co-chairman of the manifesto panel with Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Partap Singh Bajwa.
The campaign committee chaired by former state president Sunil Jakhar will have Amarpreet Lally as co-chairman and Ludhiana Lok Sabha MP Ravneet Singh Bittu as convenor.
Former bureaucrat-turned-MP Amar Singh has been made convenor of the Punjab Congress manifesto panel.
An important absentee from both panels is senior minister Brahm Mohindra with sources saying more committees will have wider representation.
The 25 member campaign panel has among members Gurkirat Kotli, Vijay Inder Singla, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Sham Sunder Arora, Raj Kumar Verka, Amarinder Raja Warring, Pargat Singh, Rajinder Beri, Yoginder Dhingra, Jugal Kishor Sharma, KK Bawa, Hardip Kingra, Emmaneul Masih, and Charan Singh.
Other members of the campaign panel are Davnder Garcha, Gulam Hussain, Balbir Sidhu, Sandeep Sandhu, Surlabh Singh, Kushaldeep Dhillon, and Samrat Dhingra.
The 20 member manifesto panel will include as members minister deputy chief minister OP Soni, Rana Gurjeet, Jaiveer Shergill, JS Dhaliwal, Surinder Dawar, Hardyal Kamboj, Sushil Rinku, Jasleen Sethi, Ashok Choudhry, Anil Vij, KK Agarwal, Manju Bansal, Vijay Kalra, and Surjit Swaich.
State chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, working presidents of state Congress, AICC secretaries, and frontal organisation chiefs will be permanent invitees to both the panels.
