Gearing up for the coming Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress on Thursday announced the constitution of a screening committee for selecting candidates.
The panel will be headed by Balasaheb Thorat, former Maharashtra Minister, and it will also have three members.
“Congress president Sonia Gandhi has constituted the screening committee for the Gujarat Assembly elections, with Mr. Thorat as its chairman. Former MP Meenakshi Natarajan, Congress Legislature Party leader in U.P. Ajay Lallu and AICC Secretary Girish Chodankar will be its members,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement. The party has already set up various committees, including the State election committee headed by PCC chief Bharatsinh Solanki, for the polls.
The Congress, which has been out of power in Gujarat for the past two decades, is very keen to wrest power from the BJP.
Though the party is buoyed by the recent Rajya Sabha election results, it has suffered a blow recently when Shankarsinh Vaghela quit the Congress along with some MLAs.
The Congress would soon launch campaign and vice-president Rahul Gandhi will attend a workers’ conference in Ahmedabad on September 4.
