New Delhi, August 25, 2018 :
Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday constituted a core group committee comprising leaders like A.K. Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad and P. Chidambaram, a manifesto committee and a publicity committee.
Besides Antony, Azad and Chidambaram, the core group committee also includes Ashok Gehlot, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Singh Surjewala and K.C. Venugopal.
The manifesto committee has Chidambaram, Ramesh, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Salman Khurshid, Shashi Tharoor, Kumari Selja, Sushmita Dev, Rajeev Gowda, Mukul Sangma, Manpreet Singh Badal, Sam Pitroda, Sachin Rao, Bindu Krishnan, Raghuveer Meena, Balchnadra Mungekar, Meenakshi Natrajan, Rajni Patil, Tamradhwaj Sahu and Lalitesh Tripathii as its members.
The publicity committee includes Anand Sharma, Randeep Surjewala, Manish Tiwari, Pramod Tiwari, Rajeev Shukla, Bhakta Charan Das, Praveen Chakravarty, Milind Deora, Ketkar Kumar, Pawan Khera, V.D. Satheesan, Jaiveer Shergill and Divya Spandana.
Only Punjab FM Manpreet Badal has been nominated to Manifesto Committee of AICC. No other Punjab leader has been included in these committees.
The lists of the members of these committees have been released by Ashok Gehlot, General Secretary of AICC :
