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Congress person and Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been appointed arsenic the chairperson of a sheet that volition shortlist imaginable candidates for the upcoming Assembly predetermination successful Assam.
The enactment connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) besides announced the screening committees for Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
While Ms. Vadra volition caput the screening committee for Assam, different members see Lok Sabha MP Saptagiri Ulaka and Rajya Sabha MP Imran Masood.
The determination shows Congress party’s intent to marque a comeback successful Assam, a State wherever the enactment had a 15-year-uninterrupted regularisation since 2001 earlier losing powerfulness to the BJP successful 2016.
Last year, the enactment revamped the State portion by appointing its lawman person successful the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi arsenic Assam Congress chief.
The screening sheet successful Kerala would beryllium headed by Madhusudan Mistry, with Rajya Sabha MP Naseer Hussain, Neeraj Dangi and Abhishek Dutt being members of the panel.
The committee for Tamil Nadu and Pudducherry would beryllium headed by T.S. Singh Deo portion the 1 connected West Bengal would beryllium headed by B.K. Hariprasad.
