Rahul Gandhi forms key Congress committees in poll-bound Telangana
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appointed A Revanth Reddy and Ponnam Prabhakar as working presidents of the Telangana unit of the party.
According to a press release issued by the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the Congress president also set up a 15-member core committee with AICC in-charge of Telangana chairman R C Khuntia as chairman of the coordination committee for the Telangana unit and PCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy as its convener. The panel will take all key decisions ahead of the assembly election slated for later this year.
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The assembly election in Telangana was necessitated after Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao dissolved the assembly ahead of its tenure which was till May 2019.
The party’s 17-member campaign committee will have Mallu Bhatti Vkramarka Mallu, MLA, as its chairman, D K Aruna as its co-chairman and Sravan Dasoju as convener, while the 35-member manifesto committee for Telangana Congress will have Damodar C Rajanarasimha as chairman, K Venkat Reddy as co-chairperson and Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud as its convener, a statement from AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot said.
(With PTI inputs)
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