Overview
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will chair Assam’s four-member screening committee, joined by Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, Imran Masood and Sirivella Prasad.
- The Congress also formed screening committees for Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal, led respectively by Madhusudan Mistry, T. S. Singh Deo and B. K. Hariprasad.
- AICC guidelines make state in-charges, PCC presidents, CLP leaders and attached AICC secretaries ex officio members of their state panels.
- Rivals, including BJP and JD(U), cast the move as a leadership tussle, which Congress leaders rejected as manufactured and said was routine organisation work.
- Assam’s election is expected in March–April 2026, with Congress coordinating a common platform with CPI(M), Raijor Dal, AJP, CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, JDA and APHLC against the BJP-led ruling bloc.