The PCC has formed an election committee and manifesto committee ahead of the rural polls in the State as per the recommendation of Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday.
PCC president Prasad Harichandan, leader of Opposition (loP) Narasingha Mishra, former Chief Minister Hemananda Biswal, former Union Minister Kahnu Charan lenka, former PCC chief KP Singhdeo, Niranjan Patnaik, former PCC president Jayadev Jena, former Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chandra Khuntia, former Minister Sarat Patnaik, former Union Ministers Srikant Jena, Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Bhakta Charan Das, lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, Ramchandra Ratha, Ramakanta Mishra, Surendra Singh Bhoi, Chiranjib Biswqal, Jagannath Patnaik, Matlub Ali, Kishore Patel, Sibananda Ray, Samir Kumar Rout Ray, Gurupad Nanda, Sarat Rout, Suresh Kumar Routroay, Sontosh Singh Saluja, Sandhya Mohapatra, Tara Prasad Bahinipati, Naba Das, Rabindra Sethy, Ripunath Seth, Judhistir Jena, Suvendu Mohanty and Debasis Patnaik have been taken in the committee. The convenor of the election committee is Mohammed Mokin and there are 37 members in it. This apart, Mahila Congress president Sasmita Behera, Youth Congress president loknath Maharathy, Chhatra Comgress president Itish Pradhan and Naba Nayak have been taken as the ex-officio members.
Similarly, Sk Matlub Ali, Kailash Acharya, Sarat Rout, Ganeshwar Behera, Narayan Patra, Hamid Hussen, Biswaranjan Mohanty and Asif Ali are in the 9-member manifesto committee whiole Sulochana Das is its convenor. Senior leaders have been assigned to look after elections in various districts.