Sheila to head Cong panel on Nehru’s 125th birth anniv celebrations

The UPA government had planned a slew of programmes to mark the occasion and had set up a national committee headed by the then prime minister Manmohan Singh to chalk out the programmes and activities.

The Congress feels Nehruvian legacy is increasingly under attack and cite the government’s decision to scrap the Planning Commission as the latest instance. The party would have commemorated the birth anniversary, but now it plans to do it in a big way.

Former Union minister Mukul Wasnik is the convener of the five-member group which Dikshit will head. The other members are Anand Sharma, Mohan Gopal and Jairam Ramesh.

While she is said to be not keen to return to Delhi politics, Dikshit — a three-time chief minister of Delhi — could get a larger role at the AICC in the reshuffle expected after the Assembly elections.