Cong campaign committee to meet on Thursday

Congress is set to hold the first meeting of its high-level Campaign Committee headed by Sonia Gandhi on Thursday even as the announcement of the schedule for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls is expected to be made next week.
The proposed meeting would follow close on the heels of the informal gathering of the Congress Working Committee which was called by party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to deliberate on the campaign theme and the suggestions for its poll manifesto.
Rahul is the co-chairman of the 50-member Campaign Committee and is leading the party in the polls.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a member of the committee along with several Union ministers like AK Antony, Sushilkumar Shinde, P Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Salman Khurshid, Kamal Nath, Anand Sharma and Jairam Ramesh.

No Chief Minister, PCC chief or CLP leader, however, figures in the committee.
Former chief ministers Sheila Dikshit and Ashok Gehlot are among the members of the committee along with senior party leaders Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora, Janardan Dwivedi, Digvijay Singh, Madhusudan Mistri, Ambika Soni and BK Hariprasad.
Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, V Narayanasamy, JD Seelam, Jitender Singh, Rajeev Shukla and Manish Tewari, too, are part of the panel.
A meeting of the party's Central Election Committee is also scheduled on that day to finalise its list of nominees.