New Delhi: All India Congress constitutes Coordination Committees in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, and Rajasthan on Monday to ensure smooth functioning of the party. The congress released a state-wise list of the panel which is approved by Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi.
Dipak Babaria has been named as the AICC general secretary in-charge for Madhya Pradesh and the other names in the list include Chief Minister Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia, former CM Digvijaya Singh, Arun Yadav, Jitu Patwari and Minakshi Natarajan.
In Chhattisgarh, P L Punia will take over as the in-charge of the coordination committee and the names of other leaders include Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, party's state unit chief Mohan Markam, T S Singh Deo, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Shivkumar Dahariya, Satyanarayan Sharma, Dhanendra Sahu and Arvind Netam.
Mukul Wasnik will head the coordination panel for Puducherry, while Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, Pradesh Congress Committee chief A Namassivayam, Vaithilingham, M Kandasamy, A V Subramanian, Valsaraj and Sanjay Dutt are its other members.
In Rajasthan, the general secretary in-charge for party affairs Avinash Pandey will be the chairman of the coordination panel, while chief minister Ashok Gehlot, state unit chief Sachin Pilot are the other names in the list including Hemaram Chaudhary, Bhanwarlal Meghwal, Deepinder Shekhawat, Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya and Harish Chaudhary.
Prior to the list of Coordination Committees, Congress has also released a list of its Manifesto Implementation Committees for the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Chhattisgarh to ensure that the promises made by the party in its manifestos get properly implemented.
The Manifesto Implementation Committees includes names of senior Congress leaders like P Chidambaram who will head the committee in Punjab, Jairam Ramesh to head the committee in Chhattisgarh, Tamradhwaj Sahu will lead the Rajasthan committee in and Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan will look after the committee formed in Madhya Pradesh.
