AICC Screening Committee Visiting Odisha Again On Feb 25

Bhubaneswar: The three-member AICC screening committee for Odisha will arrive in the state for the second time on February 25 on a three-day visit to select party candidates for the ensuing Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

The committee, led by its chairperson V. D. Satheesan and two other members, Naushad Solanki and Jitin Prasad, will arrive in Bhubaneswar on Monday morning. As per schedule, Satheesan will visit Baripada that day to hold discussions with party leaders from Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts. He will visit Balasore on February 26 to hold discussions with party leaders from Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Balasore and Bhadrak districts.

Solanki will visit Sambalpur on February 25 and hold discussions with party leaders from Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Sambalpur, Sundargarh and Bargarh districts.

Similarly, Jitin Prasad will meet party leaders from Kandhamal and Jajpur districts at the Congress Bhawan in Bhubaneswar on February 27.

The committee had in its first visit to Odisha on February 13 held a meeting with party leaders of Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies from Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Puri Jagatsinghpur, Koraput, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur and Aska.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had asked the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee to finalise candidates for the ensuing elections by February-end.