Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections , the Congress led by General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, has announced seven committees ...
Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress led by General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, has announced seven committees for the polls, The Indian Express reported on Monday. Notably, some leaders who were signatories to a letter asking for the overhaul of the party have been left out of the committees.
Prominent party leaders from Uttar Pradesh, such as former Union minister Jitin Prasada, ex-UP Congress chief Raj Babbar and AICC Jharkhand in-charge RPN Singh, were excluded from the committees.
Both Prasad and Babbar were among the 23 signatories to a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi calling for a democratic overhaul of the party to overcome the the Bharatiya Janata Party’s dominance over Indian politics. Singh, on the other hand, had criticised party leader Rahul Gandhi’s approach towards the prime minister at a Congress Working Committee meeting in June, where he suggested that the party should not attack Narendra Modi personally, but target his “policies and wrong decisions”.
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid will head a team that will draw up the party’s manifesto for the state. Other members of the manifesto committee are: PL Punia, CLP leader Aradhana Misra Mona, All India Congress Committee Secretary Vivek Bansal, spokesperson Supriya Shrinate and Amitabh Dubey.
Those who denounced the letter, such former state unit...
