From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on ednesday dissolved the Congress working committee headed by Sonia Gandhi and set up in his own team of 47-member steering committee that would function in place of the CWC, says a Congress press release by AICC general secretary K C Venugopal.
He has included key rebel leader Anand Sharma in the team and also inducted most of the outgoing general secretaries including Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Tariq Anwar, treasurar Pawan Bansal as also Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha.
Besides himself heading the steering committee, there are 47 other members. They are: Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, A K Antony, Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Ajay Maken, Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma, Avinash Pande, Gakhambam, Harish Rawat, Jairam Ramesh, Kum Shelja, K C Venugopal, Jitendra Singh, Lathanhawla, Mukul Wasnik, Oommen Chandu, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, P Chidambaram, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Raghubeer Meena, Tariq Anwar, Dr A Chella Kumar, Dr Ajoy Kumar, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, Bhakta Charan Das, Devendra Yadav and Digvijay Singh.
Other members are: Dinesh Gundurao, B Manickam Tagore, Manish Chatrath, Meira Kumar, P L Punia, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Pramod Tiwai, Rajani Patil, Dr Raghu Sharna, Rajeev Shukla, Salman Khurshid, T Subhirami Reddy, Tariq Hamid Karra, Harish Chaudhary, Jai Prakash Agarwal and K H Muniyappa.
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