The first meeting of the State Congress Coordination Committee comprising 28 members will be held on Thursday at the party office here. The committee would discuss the current political developments as well as appointments of chairpersons to government-owned boards and corporations. AICC general secretary in charge of the State, Digvijaya Singh, will chair the committee meeting. All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi constituted the new coordination committee in July last to work out strategies to enable the Congress to retain power in the State in the Legislative Assembly elections due in May, 2018. Comprising 28 members, the new committee replaced the earlier one which had seven members.

Source: The Hindu September 07, 2016 13:07 UTC