Former Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja and Rajya Sabha member Abhishek Manu Singhvi are among four new members who have been nominated to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) by the party president Sonia Gandhi.
T. Subbarami Reddy from Andhra Pradesh and former Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu have been elevated to the CWC as a permanent invitee and a special invitee respectively.
The new appointments also reflect an attempt to carefully balance inner party political equation. While Mr Singhvi has been elevated in recognition of his contribution to and handling of legal issues, Ms. Selja, a loyalist of the Gandhi family, has been brought in as a counter to former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.