Congress Constitutes Screening Committees For Lok Sabha Election Candidates
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has constituted cluster wise screening committees for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 with immediate effect. Congress has formed five clusters covering various states under the leadership of senior leaders, along with two members each in each cluster. A party release from Congress’ general secretary in-charge of organization KC Venugopal has also said All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretaries, general secretary in-charges, Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) presidents, Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leaders, and AICC Secretaries in-charge of the respective states or union territories (UTs) will be ex-officio members of their states or UTs.
Cluster 1 of the Congress Lok Sabha elections screening committee will cover Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry and will be by Harish Chaudhary, and will have Viswajeet Kadam and Jignesh Mewani as members.
Senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry will head the cluster 2 that covers Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, Odisha, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and it will have Suraj Hegde and Shafi Parambil as leaders.
Rajani Patil, Congress’ Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, will be the chairperson for the cluster 3 with Krishna Allavuru and Pargat Singh as other members of the screening committee. Cluster 3 will cover Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Daman & Diu, and Dadra &Nagar Haweli.
Cluster 4 is headed by former Congress member of Parliament from Odisha Bhakta Charan Das, and will cover states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh. Other members in the committee are Neeraj Dangi and Yashomati Thakur.
Cluster 5 of the Congress candidate screening committee is headed by former Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly Rana KP Singh, and it includes Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Jaivardhan Singh and Ivan D”souza are the members of this committee.
