Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday formed a panel to formulate the Congress’ strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress has picked Prashant Kishor’s former associate Sunil Kanugolu to lead the party’s poll campaign across the country for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He had earlier handled the BJP’s the 2017 assembly polls campaign in Uttar Pradesh and other regional parties in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and two key dissenters, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma will be the part of Congress’ Task Force- 24.

The development comes after Congress Chintan Shivirin Udaipur to discuss its way forward after its serial election defeats in recently held assembly elections in five states Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,Punjab, Manipur and Goa.

The third panel, the central planning group, would plan for the 3500-km Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The yatra will start on October 2 and will pass through 12 states to rally support to ‘protect Constitution, democracy and various institutions’.

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The members of Congress Working Committee (CWC) who will assist Sonia in taking the party position on important issues, have been chosen for the party’s political affairs group which also includes Rahul Gandhi and two key dissenters Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma.

The Congress has set up three panels Task Force 2024, the political affairs group and the central plannning group to decide their fiture course of action.

No member from the G-23 or group of 23 dissenters, who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 calling for a massive organizational and leadership overhaul, will not be the part of The Task Force – 2024

In the political affairs Group will be headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ambika Soni, Digvijaya Singh, KC Venugopal and Jitendra Singh. While the Task Force 2022 includes P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Mukul Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Ajay Maken and Randeep Surjewala.

No member from the G-23 or group of 23 dissenters, who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 calling for a massive organizational and leadership overhaul, will not be the part of The Task Force – 2024

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