Congress core group
The Congress Core Group (also known as Congress Core Committee) is a group of top politicians in the Indian National Congress party.[1][2][3] It was chaired by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi.
History
It was formed in 2004 to help the UPA government.[4] The first group consisted of Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, A. K. Antony, Arjun Singh and P. Chidambaram.[5] The group met every week to take stock of the situation and decide on important issues.
The members
The current core grouo committee has only 10 members
- Sonia Gandhi - President, Congress party
- Manmohan Singh - Prime Minister of India
- A. K. Antony
- P. Chidambaram
- Ahmed Patel
- Ghulam Nabi Azad
- Ashok Gehlot
- Randeep Surjewala
- Jairam Ramesh
- K. C. Venugopal
References
- Congress Core Committee to take final call on Telangana
- Congress working committee to take final call on Telangana: Botsa Satyanarayana
- Congress core group meets to discuss RTI amendments, Telangana Archived 2013-07-20 at Archive.today
- http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/53182/
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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