Rahul Gandhi (PTI photo)

BHOPAL: With just three months to the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, AICC president Rahul Gandhi on Friday appointed a 32-member election committee headed by PCC president Kamal Nath . A letter from AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot to the state Congress office said that Rahul Gandhi has approved names for the Pradesh Election Committee. The first meeting of the committee has been scheduled for August 16 at 7 pm.

Names of members were in the order of state Congress president Kamal Nath, MP from Guna Jyotiraditya Scindia , former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, Congress legislative party leader Ajay Singh, followed by MPs Kantilal Bhuria, Vivek Tankha, Rajmani Patel. Other members included former Union minister Suresh Pachauri, former PCC chief Arun Yadav, former minister of the Digvijaya Singh government Inderjit Patel, former Rajya Sabha MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi, MLA from Bhopal (North) seat and only Muslim MLA in the assembly Arif Aqueel, former minister and senior MLA Dr Govind Singh.

The list also included MLA from Gurh seat Sundarlal Tiwari who stirred a hornet's nest recently abusing chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former MPs Meenakshi Natarajan, Sajjan Singh Verma, Vijay Laxmi Sadho, MLA Umang Singar, Mahendra Joshi and Govind Singh Rajput.

The four working presidents appointed for the assembly elections are also members of the election committee including senior MLA and former minister Ram Niwas Rawat, MLA from Rau Jeetu Patwari, former minister and senior MLA Bala Bachchan and Surendra Choudhary. The letter said that presidents of frontal organisations Mandvi Chouhan of Mahila Congress, Vipin Wandhade of NSUI, Kunal Choudhary of Youth Congress and Yogesh Yadav chief organiser of Seva Dal are also part of the committee. In addition chairpersons of the SC cell, OBC cell, minority cell and Kisan Congress are also members of the election committee.

