Team News Riveting
Guwahati, March 1
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, one of the Group 23 or G-23 members who had raised revolt in the Congress organisation, had been given important responsibility for the Assam assembly election.
Chavan, who has also signed the letter addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to revamp the organisation, has been appointed as the chairman of Congress screening committee for Assam. Kamaleshwar Patel and Dipika Pandey Singh will be the members in the committee.
The other ex-officio members of the committee include AICC General Secretary In-Charge Jitendra Singh, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora, Assam CLP leader Debabrata Saikia, and AICC Secretaries Anirudh Singh, Prithviraj Prabhakar Sathe and Vikash Upadhaya.
The screening committee will deliberate on the names of the party candidates and make its recommendations to the Central Election Committee, which will make the final decision on the party candidate. The committee will screen candidates for the upcoming assembly polls and make recommendations to the Central Election Committee. Chaired by Gandhi, the Central Election Committee will make the final decision on party candidates.
The appointment of Chavan is also seen as a split in the dissident group that hogged the headlines again a couple of days ago by organising Shanti Sammelan in Jammu under the aegis of NGO Gandhi Global Family. Only eight out of 23 leaders had reportedly turned up in the event sporting saffron turbans and praising the Prime Minister.
