CONGRESS leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been appointed chairperson of the screening committee for selection of candidates for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections. All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Saturday night announced the formation of screening committees for the five States and Union Territories going to polls in the first half of this year.

 

The four-member committees were formed for Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to finalise candidate lists to contest the forthcoming State elections. Vadra, AICC General Secretary and parliamentarian, has been named the chairperson of the committee for Assam.

 

where the Congress is looking to contest the elections in an alliance with other opposition parties and wrest power from the BJP. Her close aides Imran Masood and Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, both Lok Sabha MPs, along with Sirivella Prasad have been made the members of the Assam screening panel.