Sonia Gandhi Appoints G-23 Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad As Chairman Of Congress Task Force On Covid-19

The other members of the Congress Covid task force include Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal and Randeep Singh Surjewala to coordinate relief activities of the party.

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New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appointed senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad as the chairman of the party’s Covid task force.

The other members of the Congress Covid task force include Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal, Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Dr Ajoy Kumar, Manish Chatrath, Pawan Khera, Gurdeep Singh Sappal and BV Srinivas.

The Congress posted the same on its official Twitter handle stating the Congress President has constituted the Covid-19 Relief Task Force to coordinate relief activities of the party with immediate effect.

“INC COMMUNIQUE Important Notification regarding constitution of COVID-19 relief task force,” the party posted on Twitter along with the release mentioning the names of the members.

The charge of Covid task force to Azad is the first major assignment since the letter controversy last year.

23 senior Congress leaders, including five former chief ministers, many Congress Working Committee members, sitting MPs, and several former union ministers, had sent a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi in August last year calling for sweeping changes, from top to bottom.

The leaders in the letter acknowledged the BJP's rise and admitted that the youth decisively voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi while pointing out that erosion of party support base and losing confidence of the youth are matters of grave concern.