Cong to implement Antony panel8217;s writ

The other members of the committee, which met for the first time on Sunday at the AICC headquarters, are AICC general secretaries Ambika Soni, Ahmed Patel, Oscar Fernandes and AICC secretary Kumari Selja and Congress president8217;s office incharge R D Pradhan and former Maharashtra MP Prithviraj Chauhan.

According to party sources, the committee will find ways and means to implement the main recommendationsof the Antony report, which was submitted to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on November 30. The need for this committee arose, say sources, so that a more focussed direction could be given to the recommendations to bring them to reality.

It was felt that one of the reasons reports of earlier committees such as the Karunukaran committee gathered dust in the party headquarters was the lack of a monitoring agency to carry out the recommendations.

At a special sitting earlier this month, the CWC had endorsed as many as 19 recommendations of the Antony Committee.