Priyanka Gandhi introduces 'new system' for selecting Congress candidates in Assam polls

3 minute learnnew delhiFebruary 18, 2026 09:16 AM (IST)

As Assam’s meeting elections strategy, Congress common secretary and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who heads the celebration’s candidate choice committee within the state, will go to Guwahati on Thursday for 2 days of talks with Congress leaders and the vetting committee.

Bhadra launched a “new system” by which committee members are required to journey extensively throughout the state to get suggestions on potential candidates. The members of the committee are MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, MP Imran Masood and senior chief MP Siribera Prasad. They’re tasked with narrowing down the candidates to a shortlist and main inner discussions previous to voting.

Congress sources instructed The Indian Specific that the “new system” of the Vadra vetting committee is an experiment and is prone to be handled like a “pilot challenge” to be replicated in different state elections.

Asad Rehman is with the Indian Specific nationwide bureau and covers politics and coverage with a deal with India’s spiritual minorities. Rehman, who has been a journalist for over eight years, took up the submit after masking Uttar Pradesh for 5 years for The Indian Specific. Whereas in Uttar Pradesh, he coated points reminiscent of politics, crime, well being, and human rights, amongst others. He did in depth discipline reporting, masking protests in opposition to the brand new citizenship regulation within the state that left scores of individuals lifeless. Through the coronavirus pandemic, he carried out in depth discipline reporting on the migration of employees from large cities to villages in Uttar Pradesh. He has additionally coated a number of landmark instances, together with the Babri Masjid Ram temple case and the continuing Gyanvapi Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute. Previous to that, he labored as a duplicate editor on the nationwide desk of The Indian Specific for 3 years. Rehman studied at La Martiniere in Lucknow and later earned a bachelor’s diploma in historical past from Ramjas Faculty, College of Delhi. He additionally holds a grasp’s diploma from AJK Mass Communication Analysis Middle, Jamia Millia Islamia. … learn extra