New Delhi, June 18: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today appointed four committees to identify areas in several fields, including political, socio-economic and organisational set up, to be taken up at the three-day brainstorming session of the party beginning at Shimla from July 7. Gandhi also appointed a central coordination committee headed by senior party leader Pranab Mukharjee to oversee the four sub-committees' and finalise the draft to be presented at the brainstorming session of the party, party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.
Mukherjee was the head of the coordination committee at Pachmarhi session in September 1998 which came out with famous resolution on alliances saying though the party was not averse to tie-ups but it would be affected only "when necessary" and that too without compromising party's ideals and principles. While senior party leader Arjun Singh would be heading the committee on political challenges, former Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily, an OBC would be heading an important committee on social empowerment, party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.
Deviating from the past to pass resolutions on repeated political-social-economic lines, Gandhi appointed senior party leaders Balram Jakhar to head the committee on rural transformation and P R Kyndiah as chairman of the people-oriented governance.
Keeing in view of the importance of the forthcoming polls in five state assemblies later this year and Lok Sabha next year Gandhi appointed G N Azad to head the important committee on election preparedness and organisational reforms. Bureau Report