THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The AICC has constituted a 36-member political affairs committee (PAC) in place of the existing 21-member committee. Ten out of 15 sitting Congress MPs, including Shashi Tharoor, and four women leaders - Shanimol Usman, Padmaja Venugopal, Bindhu Krishna and P K Jayalakshmi, have found a berth in the committee.
Senior Congress leader V M Sudheeran who had stepped down from the previous PAC has also been included. Cherian Philip, director of Congress’ political school, who had returned to the Congress from the Left camp, was also included in the PAC.
The members of the PAC are K Sudhakaran, V D Satheesan, Ramesh Chennithala, K Muraleedharan, V M Sudheeran, Mullapally Ramachandran, M M Hassan, Kodikunnil Suresh, P J Kurien, Shashi Tharoor, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, K C Joseph, Benny Behanan, Adoor Prakash, M K Raghavan, T N Prathapan, Anto Antony, Hibi Eden, P C Vishnunadh, Shanimol Usman, M Liju, T Siddique, A P Anil Kumar, Sunny Joseph, Roji M John, N Subramanian, Ajay Tharayil, V S Sivakumar, Joseph Vazhakkan, Padmaja Venugopal, Cherian Philip, Bindu Krishna, Shafi Parambil, Sooranad Rajasekharan and Johnson Abraham.