MP: Congress Names Former Union Minister Kantilal Bhuria as Campaign Committee Chairman

GG News Bureau

Bhopal, 1st Aug. The Congress party on Tuesday appointed former Union Minister Kantilal Bhuria as chairman of the party’s campaign committee for Madhya Pradesh, with former Chief Ministers Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh as its members.

K.C. Venugopal, Congress General Secretary (Organisation), stated in an official communication, ““Congress President (Mallikarjun Kharge) has approved the proposal for the constitution of the campaign committee for ensuing Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh with immediate effect.”

The other members of the committee are Govind Singh, Suresh Pachauri, Arun Yadav, Ajay Singh Rahul, Vivek Tankha, Rajmani Patel, Nakul Nath, Sajjan Singh Verma, N.P. Prajapati, K.P. Singh Kakkajoo, Lakshman Singh, Bala Bacchan, Tarun Bhanot, Omkar Singh Markam, Vijaylaxmi Sadho, Rajendra Singh, Hina Kaware, Lakhan Singh Yadav, Sukhdeo Panse, Jitu Patwari, Kamleshwar Patel, Surendra Singh Honey Baghel, Ramniwas Rawat, Surendra Chaudhary, Arif Masood, Mahendra Joshi, Shobha Ojha, Ashok Singh and Rajiv Singh.

The party has also named state heads of all frontal organisations and state chairpersons of the SC, ST, OBC and Minority Departments as its members.

The news comes a day after the Congress named Randeep Singh Surjewala as senior election observer and Chandrakant Handore as observer for Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly elections are scheduled for later this year.

The Congress is trying to reclaim power in the state after falling out of power owing to a revolt by former party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and his 22 MLAs who defected to the BJP.

The Congress has already begun its election campaign in the state, as it has in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, and has also issued five guarantees to the people of the state.