Congress forms screening panels for poll-bound northeastern states

January 22, 2018 22:31

Senior Congress leaders Mukul Wasnik, Oscar Fernandes and Kumari Selja will head the screening committees for poll-bound Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, respectively, the party said today.

The three states are scheduled to go to polls next month.

"Congress president Rahul Gandhi today approved the screening committees for the poll-bound states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland," the party's national general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said.

"Mukul Wasnik will be the chairman of the screening committee for Tripura, and Oscar Fernandes and Selja will chair the panels for Meghalaya and Nagaland, respectively," he said.

Leaders Shakeel Ahmed Khan and Amitabh Chakravarty will be members of the screening committee for Tripura, and Congress MP from Durg, Tamra Dhwaj Sahu, and former MP Meenakshi Natarajan will be members of the Meghalaya committee, Dwivedi said.

The Congress screening committee for Nagaland will have party MP Gaurav Gogoi and leader Mausam Noor as its members, he said, adding that respective state chiefs and CLP leaders will be ex-officio members of the panels.

The committees will screen candidates and recommend their names for the upcoming assembly elections in the three states.

-- PTI

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