Bhubaneswar: Congress has constituted a 59-member campaign committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha.
Senior leader and former Union Minister Bhakta Charan Das has been made chairman of the Congress campaign committee for Odisha, while Navajyoti Patnaik has been named as its vice-chairman.
Sudhanshu Sekhar Deo has been announced as the convenor of the campaign committee.
The committee includes among others Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Narasingha Mishra, former Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang, former Union Ministers K P Singhdeo and Srikant Jena, and former OPCC presidents Niranjan Patnaik, Jaydev Jena and Prasad Harichandan.
Former MP Rama Chandra Khuntia, bureaucrat-turned-politician Bijay Kumar Patnaik, Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka and former Ministers Panchanan Kanungo, Sarat Rout, Jagannath Patnaik and Bijaylaxmi Sahoo have also been made members of the campaign committee.
Apart from them, all party MLAs in Odisha, the chiefs of all frontal organisations of the party and the presidents of all District Congress Committees (DCCs) in Odisha are the ex-officio members of the panel.
