Sonia names 4 Punjab MPs, Pratibha Singh, Deepender Hooda as CPP office-bearers

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 20

Several MPs from the region and the maximum from election-bound Punjab found place among office-bearers Congress president Sonia Gandhi appointed to the parliamentary party on Monday.

Four MPs from Punjab are part of the list. While Jalandhar reserved segment MP Sanokh Singh Chaudhary has been appointed one of the only three secretaries of the Congress Parliamentary Party, Amritsar MP Gurjeet Aujla, Faridkot MP JS Gill and Rajya Sabha MP SS Dullo have been included in the 22-member executive committee of the CPP.

The other two secretaries of the CPP are Kozhikode MP MK Raghavan and the party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Amee Yagnik.

Newly-elected Mandi MP Pratibha Singh and Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda are in the executive committee which also has among members MPs Karti Chidambaram, Neeraj Dangi (RS member from Rajasthan) and Pradeep Tamta (RS member from Uttrakhand).

Sonia Gandhi has also included Phulo Devi Netam, one of the 12 suspended Rajya Sabha MPs, in the CPP executive panel.

Netam is a Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh.