The Congress screening committee will hold meeting at Delhi on Monday to take decision on the candidates for the Parliament election, in which survey report will be presented. Based on the report, final list of claimants will be made.
According to party sources, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi had got one more survey done recently. The survey team, visiting all the lok Sabha constituencies, had received feedback on the probabilities of the Congress and prepared its report of eligible candidates. It is said that this report would be placed before the screening committee.
In the screening committee headed by chairman Oscar Fernandes, Meenakshi Natarajan, State president Bhupesh Baghel and leader of the Opposition TS Singhdeo are members. According to the sources, panel has been prepared in all seats. However, names of Dr Charandas Mahant from Korba seat, former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi from Bilaspur are in single panels.
The names of Ramdevram and Dr Premsai Singh from Surguja seat and Rampukar Singh and Arti Singh from Raigarh seat have been included. Besides, names of former MP Paras Ram Bharadwaj, PR Khunte and Padma Manhar are under circulation from Janjgir-Champa seat.
From Raipur seat, names of former Minister Mohd Akbar and Satyanarayan Sharma are in the panel, whereas, names of Pratima Pande from Mahasamund and Phulodevi Netam, Naresh Thakur from Kanker were included. Besides names of Deepak Karma and Harish lakhma from Bastar seat are in the panel. The issue of Durg seat has been left on the party national treasurer Motilal Vora.
According to the party sources, finally, panel of one or more claimants would be prepared and presented before the Central election committee meeting.