The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday formed a 24-member State Congress Campaign Committee to oversee the party’s preparations for the ensuing Assembly and lok Sabha elections. The AICC appointed Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Srikant Jena as the chairman of the committee, party sources said.
The other members of the committee are PCC president Jayadev Jena, leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh, Kalahandi MP Bhakta Das, lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, Rajya Sabha member Ranjib Biswal, Opposition Chief Whip in Assembly Prasad Harichandan, Narasingha Mishra, Sarat Pattanaik, Nabarangpur MP Pradip Majhi, Sushila Tiria, Kahnu Charan lenka, Chandrasekhar Sahu, Amar Pradhan, Jagannath Patnaik, Kishore Patel, Matlub Alli, Naba Das, Prafulla Majhi, Rama Chandra Khuntia and chiefs of the youth, student and women wings and Seva Dal of the PCC.