The Congress on Tuesday appointed senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to head a Covid task force with 13 members in the group which includes Priyanka Gandhi.
Azad has been one of the members of the group of 23 dissenters (G-23). The move taken by party chief Sonia Gandhi is seen as an attempt to reach out to the dissenting leader.
Other members include Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, Ambika Soni, KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala and Youth Congress chief BV Srinivas among others.
The party also set up a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to evaluate the party''s performance in the just-concluded assembly polls.
The announcement comes a day after party chief Sonia Gandhi proposed at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) the formation of a group to assess the party''s losses in Kerala, Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry.
"The Congress president has constituted a group to evaluate the results of the recently concluded assembly elections, with immediate effect. Ashok Chavan will be the chairman and other members of the group are Salman Khurshid, Manish Tewari, Vincent H Pala and Jothi Mani," an official statement from AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said.
The group will submit its report within two weeks, the communication further said.