Rahul Gandhi Appointed Head of INC Coordination Panel for 2014 Lok Sabha Elections

Rahul Gandhi, the General Secretary of  Indian National Congress on 15 November 2012 was made the head of the Congress Coordination Committee for 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

With the appointment of Rahul Gandhi, Senior leaders of Congress Ahmed Patel, Janardan Dwivedi, Digvijaya Singh, Madhusudan Mistry and Jairam Ramesh also included in the members list of the election coordination committee.

The formation of Election Coordination Committee was announced by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the Sanvad Baithak at Surajkund in Haryana. She has also constituted three sub-groups keeping in view the Lok Sabha elections to be held in 2014.

The three Sub-Groups are-

The first sub group formed look after the key issue of pre-poll alliances, is going to be headed by Defence Minister AK Antony.

The manifesto and government programmes sub group, is headed by Antony, and has P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Anand Sharma, Salman Khurshid, Sandeep Dikshit, Ajit Jogi, Renuka Chowdhary and P L Punia as its members

The communications and publicity sub-group is chaired by Digvijaya Singh and have former I&B minister Ambika Soni, Manish Tewari, Deepender Hooda, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Rajiv Shukla and Bhakta Charan Das as members.