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Congress to have another 'Narora session' in September

The much expected 'brain-storming' Narora type of convention of the Congress party to finetune its ideology, will be held in the first week of September in Madhya Pradesh with the constitution of a central coordination committee headed by Nawal Kishore Sharma.

Party general secretary Oscar Fernandes said AICC president Sonia Gandhi had appointed the state-level reception committee headed by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, and four committees to prepare background papers on economic, political, foreign and organisational affairs. The central coordination committee would supervise all arrangements for the session.

The members of the central coordination committee are former ministers Arjun Singh, B Shankaranand, K Karunakaran, Pranab Mukherjee, M L Fotedar, P Shiv Shankar, N D Tiwari, R K Dhawan, Margaret Alva besides former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma and senior leaders Jitendra Prasada, Dr S C Vats and party treasurer Ahmed Patel.

Members of the reception committee were Madhya Pradesh unit president Urmila Singh, state deputy chief minister Subhash Yadav and party MPs Kamal Nath and Vimla Varma.

Leaders of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Sharad Pawar and Manmohan Singh, figure in the economic and political affairs committees respectively. Mukherjee, N K P Salve, Murli Deora and Jairam Ramesh would be the other members of the economic affairs committee. The political affairs committee consists of Arjun Singh, Karunakaran, Tiwari, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Najma Heptullah.

The foreign affairs committee would be headed by K Natwar Singh, Mukherjee, Salman Khursheed, Aiyar and Anand Sharma. A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P R Dasmunshi, Chaudhary Birender Singh, Girija Vyas and Mukul Wasnik are the members of the organisational matters committee.

Party spokesman Salman Khurshed said the party was working out details of the session like the number of participants, subjects to be discussed and about the number of sittings and days.

UNI

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