Congress constitutes U.P. poll panel; includes Lallu, Khurshid, Shukla

State unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu has said the Congress would fight the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls under party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s supervision

Gearing up for the Assembly polls next year, the Indian National Congress on August 11 constituted its election committee for Uttar Pradesh, which includes its State unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu and former Union Ministers Salman Khurshid, Rajeev Shukla and R.P.N. Singh. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved a proposal for the constitution of the Pradesh Election Committee of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Comittee (UPCC), a statement issued by AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal said. Apart from the 38 members named in the panel, the national presidents or chairpersons of All India Congress Committee (AICC) organisations or departments from Uttar Pradesh, the State heads of the party’s frontal organisations, the vice-presidents and general secretaries of the UPCC will be its ex-officio members.