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Congress forms coordination panel
for Maharashtra

Former Union minister and party leader S B Chavan will be the convenor of the panel while Vayalar Ravi, in charge of the party's affairs in the state, will be its ex-officio member, Ravi said in a statement in New Delhi.

The committee will comprise of Chief Minister Vilas Deshmukh, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Govind Adik, party's Mumbai unit chief Murli Deora, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Shivraj Patil, Congress Working Committee member Sunil Dutt, former PCC chief M N Kamble, former All India Congress Committee general secretaries Prabha Rau and Isaak Jamkhhanwal.

Congress spokesman S Jaipal Reddy said the committee was formed with the sole objective of securing better coordination within the party and it had nothing to do with the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party-led coalition government in the state.

Asked what was the need for a separate coordination committee when a full-fledged PCC was already in place, Reddy said the idea was mooted by Ravi when he assumed charge of the state.

The panel will look into the complaints of party legislators about the lack of development works in their respective constituencies, MPCC sources said.

The chief minister, referring to the formation of the committee, said it only indicated that "there was a lack of intra-party co-ordination previously".

PTI

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