Congress president Sonia Gandhi has constituted 27 members Delhi Pradesh Election Committee on Monday. Delhi Congress president Jai Prakash Agarwal will be the chairman of the Committee. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken, Union Minister Kapil Sibal and Krishna Tirath, AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi and MPs from Delhi are the other members
Jai Prakash Agarwal, told The Pioneer that the mandate of this Committee is to collect names of possible or winning candidates at block and district levels and send it over to the Screening Committee. “The main job of the Committee is to find out suitable candidates for all the 70 Assembly seats,” said Agarwal.
The other members of the Committee are former Union Minister RK Dhawan, Dr Karan Singh, Sandeep Dikshit, Ramesh Kumar, Parvez Hashmi, Mahabal Mishra, Subhash Chopra, Tajdar Babar, Choudhury Prem Singh, Arvinder Singh lovely, Haroon Yusuf, Manish Chatrath, Naseeb Singh, Jitender Kochar, Vijay Kumar, Sudesh Sangwan, Onika Mehrotra, Dineswar Tyagi, Amit Malik, Ankit Dedha and Devender Yadav. The names of Delhi Ministers Raj Kumar Chauhan, Prof Kiran Walia, Ashok Kumar Walia, Dr Yoganand Shastri and Ramakant Goswami have not been included in the Pradesh Election Committee.
Sources said that the party high command has tried to accommodate camp followers of both Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Delhi Congress president Jai Prakash Agarwal in the Pradesh Election Committee. The Congress had earlier constituted a six-member coordination committee for the Delhi Assembly Polls, whose convenor is DPCC chief Jai Prakash Agarwal and which also comprises Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and AICC General Secretary in charge for Delhi, Shakeel Ahmed.