India, Jan. 4 -- The Congress has appointed party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the chairperson of its screening committee for the upcoming Assam assembly elections, a notification issued by All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary late Saturday night said.

According to AICC general secretary (organisation) K. C. Venugopal's notification, screening committees have been constituted also for West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry scheduled to go to the polls in the first half of 2026.

For Assam, Priyanka, who is also an AICC general secretary and a Member of Parliament (MP), will head the four-member panel. Lok Sabha MPs Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka and Imran Masood, along with Sirivella Prasad, have been named as member...