4 MPs from Punjab, Pratibha, Deepender on Cong Parl panel

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, December 20

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

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

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 Uttarakhand). Sonia has also included Phulo Devi Netam (RS MP from Chhattisgarh), who is one of the 12 suspended MPs, on the panel.