Priyanka Gandhi heads panel to shortlist Assam Congress candidates

New Delhi: Congress leadership on Saturday named the screening committees for shortlisting the party candidates for the poll-bound States and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been made chairperson of the screening committee for Assam.

This is the first organisational (short-term assignment) Vadra getting after she ceased to be AICC generat secretary in-charge of Uttara Pradesh. Since then she has been a general secretary without specific assignment even as she became a Lok Sabha member from Wayanad.

According to the AICC release, Madhusudan Mistry has been made the chairperson of screening committees for Kerala, TS Singh Deo as head of panels for Tamilnadu and Puducherry and BJP Hariprasad for West Bengal.


The candidates shortlisted by the screening committees, in consultations withthe respective PCCs, will then be discussed by the Congress Central Election Committee, which makes the final selection of party candidates.