The Congress on Monday appointed former Union Minister M Veerappa Moily as the chairman of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Manifesto Committee and Bl Shankar as its vice-chairman.
The committee, cleared by party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, has 33 other leaders of the State as its members, including former Union Minister and ex-Governor Margaret Alva. The party is bracing for Assembly elections in Karnataka, which goes to polls in mid-2018.
The tenure of the current 224-member Assembly in the State is up to May 28, 2018. Rahul also cleared a jumbo list of the Executive Committee of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee with 94 members.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, former chief ministers from the party, AICC office-bearers, MPs and Ministers in the State, besides a number of other leaders have been made ex-officio members of the panel.