Ghulam Nabi Azad had led a group of senior Congress leaders, known as G-23, to write a letter demanding free and fair organisational election in the party. The G-23 had.
Congress 5-member group under Ashok Chavan to evaluate poll debacle, Azad to head Covid-relief team
New DelhiL: The Congress on Tuesday set up a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to evaluate the party”s performance in the just-concluded assembly polls, and another team under senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Covid to coordinate its Covid-19 relief work.
It comes a day after party chief Sonia Gandhi proposed, at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the formation of a group to assess the party”s losses in Kerala, Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry.
“The Congress president has constituted a group to evaluate the results of the recently concluded assembly elections, with immediate effect. Ashok Chavan will be the chairman and other members of the group are Salman Khurshid, Manish Tewari, Vincent H Pala and Jothi Mani,” an official statement from AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said.
Dissenter Azad to head Congress task force on Covid
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Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 11 : Congress has set up a task force on Covid and one of the party s top dissenting voices, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has been appointed as its Chairman.
Others on the 13-member committee include Ambika Soni, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Mukul Wasnik, Pawan Kumar Bansal, K.C. Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, and Jairam Ramesh.
The inclusion of Azad comes as a surprise as he raised the issue of elections in the party and demanded more visible leadership.
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The grand old party also constituted another team to oversee its Covid-19 relief work.
While the first group will be headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the second team will have senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad at its helm.
Ghulam Nabi Azad and Sonia Gandhi
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appointed G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad as the chairman of the party s Covid task force.
This is Ghulam Nabi Azad s first major assignment since the letter controversy.
The letter from the Congress party.
Given top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi s relentless attack on the Narendra Modi government, this task force assumes immense significance in the party. This is the first major responsibility that has been given to Ghulam Nabi Azad since the G-23 leaders wrote a letter last year demanding free and fair organisational election in the Congress.
The Congress s decision to constitute the Covid task force under Ghulam Nabi Azad followed another postponement of the Congress presidential election. Ghulam Nabi Azad incidentally last week supported the decision to postpone the election to the Congress president s post.