The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Saturday approved a coordination committee of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC).
Congress president Rahul Gandhi approved the 31-member coordination committee, an AICC release said.
AICC member and Odisha-in-charge Jitender Singh was appointed as the chairman of the committee while Jagannath Patnaik was named as its convener.
The other members of the committee are PCC president Niranjan Patnaik, leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra Sushila Tiriya, Rama Chandra Khuntia, G Rudra Raju, Anil Kumar Chaudhury, Mastan Vali, Aditya Sharma, Chinranjib Biswal, Naba Kishore Das, Pradip Majhi, Tara Prasad Bahinipati, Bhakta Charan Das, Hemanand Biswal, Jayadev Jena, Srikant Jena, Prasad Harichandan, Anant Prasad Sethi, Kanhu Charan lenka, Kamakhya Prasad Singhdeo, Sarat Patnaik, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Kishore Chandra Patel, Sk Matlub Ali, Sibanand Ray, Samir Routray, Bijaylaxmi Sahoo, Mohammed Moquim and Shyam Sundar Hansdah.