Rahul Gandhi led-Congress party on Saturday formed three internal committees with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections...

Rahul Gandhi led-Congress party on Saturday formed three internal committees with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. These include a core committee, a manifesto committee and a publicity committee. The three committees are marked by the presence of several veteran leaders and few from the younger brigade.

                        19 member Manifesto committee

The nine-member core group committee includes newly appointed treasure Ahmed Patel, organisational general secretary in-charge Ashok Gehlot, senior management parliamentarians and party leaders such as Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jairam Ramesh, A K Antony, K C Venugopal and communications chief Randeep Surjewala.

                           Publicity committee is a 13-member body

The 19-member manifesto committee includes a mixed group of leaders, including former finance minister P Chidambaram, Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and parliamentarians like Sushmita Dev and Rajeev Gowda, among others. The publicity committee is a 13-member body, which includes senior leaders such as Milind Deora, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, newly appointed Rajya Sabha member Kumar Ketkar and social media head Divya Spandana. The list of the committees was announced by Ashok Gehlot in a press release on Saturday afternoon.