Congress publicizes panels for Assam polls

Having determined towards projecting a chief ministerial face and giving into calls for for changing the state Congress president forward of Assembly elections in Assam, the Congress excessive command on Monday introduced a number of committees for the poll-bound state. It appointed nearly each senior chief as head of a panel in a balancing act to accommodate everybody and quell factional feud. Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi will head the marketing campaign committee.
Sources mentioned AICC In cost Jitendra Singh had advised prime Congress leaders from the state at a closed-door assembly lately that the social gathering is not going to venture anybody because the CM candidate. In truth, he additionally nearly put all of the leaders on discover, telling them that each chief will get a “post” in election associated panels however how they “conduct” themselves whereas delivering the duty assigned to them will determine their destiny.
Besides infighting, one of many apparent causes the social gathering can not venture a CM face is as a result of it was now in a multi-party coalition, sources mentioned.
At that assembly, many leaders together with Bordoloi and Lok Sabha MP Ahdul Khaleque had demanded alternative of state Congress chief Ripun Bora. With election on the doorsteps, the excessive command determined towards changing him however has put Bordoloi as head of the 50-member marketing campaign committee. AICC secretary Bhupen Bora, who was one other aspirant for the PCC chief publish, would be the vice chairperson of the marketing campaign committee.
State Congress president Ripun Bora will head the 24-member Pradesh Election Committee and CLP chief Debabrata Saikia would be the vice chairperson. All the highest leaders are members of this panel. For the primary time, an outreach committee has been set as much as work on social engineering. Mahila Congress president and former Lok Sabha MP Sushmita Dev will head the outreach committee.
Veteran Congress chief and former Union minister Paban Singh Ghatowar will head the coordination committee, Congress deputy chief in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi is the chairman of the manifesto committee, Barpeta MP Ahdul Khaleque will head the media and communication committee and Deputy CLP chief and former minister Rokibul Hussain will head the publicity committee.
Former BJP MP Ram Prasad Sharma, who as soon as rode a horse to Parliament to mark his protest towards the Delhi authorities’s odd-even visitors restrictions, will head the Election Management Committee.
CLP chief Saikia is probably the one senior chief who is not going to be heading a panel. Saikia, in addition to Bordoloi and Ripun Bora, was among the many aspirants for the CM publish within the occasion of the Congress returning to energy within the state.
Asked concerning the Congress’s possibilities, one senior chief mentioned, “We are in the fight. But some polarisation has already happened because of the alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF. But we didn’t have much of an option…It is like damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”