New Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday arrange a Steering Committee which, the celebration stated, would operate rather than the Congress Working Committee, until a brand new CWC is fashioned.
A lot of the members of the final CWC, together with former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former celebration presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, have been retained within the interim panel introduced simply hours after Kharge took over as the brand new celebration chief.
All of the members of the CWC and workplace bearers of the celebration put down their papers to Kharge to allow him to decide on his personal staff.
In keeping with the checklist launched by the AICC normal secretary (Organisation), the members of the Steering Committee embody senior celebration leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, A Ok Antony, Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma, Ok C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala and Digvijaya Singh.
“As per Article XV (b) of the Structure of the Indian Nationwide Congress, the Congress president has constituted the Steering Committee which might operate rather than the Congress Working Committee,” the order learn.
The CWC is the apex decision-making physique of the Congress and the Steering Committee will now take all selections until the ratification of Kharge’s election on the celebration’s plenary session. The session is prone to be held in March subsequent yr.