Last Updated on December 13, 2021 8:16 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
AMN / New Delhi
Congress president Sonia Gandhi today constituted a 29 member Punjab election committee signalling poll preparedness.
Among other she announced presidents and working presidents for all district committees in the state.
The Pradesh Election Committee tasked with shortlisting candidates for the upcoming state elections will have PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu as chairman and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi as member.
The poll committee also features veteran five-time Rajya Sabha MP Ambika Soni, former state chief Sunil Jakhar, MP Partap Singh Bajwa, all MPs of Punjab from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and all ministers of the state government.
Others included in the panel are former Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, former state party chiefs HS Hanspal and Mohinder Singh Kaypee, AICC secretary KL Sharma, MLA Raminder Amla, senior vice president of state unit Laal Singh, state working presidents Kuljit Nagra, Sukhvinder Danny and Pawan Goel.
Punjab Congress vice president Gurpreet Kangar, MLAs Balbir Singh Sidhu, Shyam Sunder Arora, Rana Sodhi, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Ajaib Singh Bhatti, Navtej Cheema have also been named in the panel alongside Hamid Masih, state SC department chairman Raj Kumar Chhabewal, Punjab Mahila Congress chief Balbir Rani Sodhi, state youth president Barinder Dhillon, Punjab NSU president Akshay Sharma and chief organiser of Punjab Seva Dal Nirmal Kaira.