Committee to draft Common Minimum Programme for Cong-JDS

Former union ministerVeerappa Moily is among the five member drafting committeeappointed by the coordination committee of theruling JDS-Congress coalition in Karnataka to prepare a CommonMinimum Programme.

While revenue minister R V Deshpande and waterresources minister D K Shivkumar are the other two membersfrom Congress, JD(S) is represented by PWD ministerH D Revanna and former IAS officer S Subramanya.

Moily, a former Chief Minister, had served as headof the Congress manifesto committee, ahead of the assembly polls.

The names of the drafting committee members were announced by Kunwar Danish Ali, convener of the JDS-Congress coalition coordination committee, in a statement.

The coordination committee of the ruling JDS-Congress that met yesterday for the first time had decided toappoint a drafting committee to prepare a Common MinimumProgramme for governance that would have salient features oftheir election manifestos.

The drafting committee is expected to draft a common minimum programme and submit to the coordination committee within 10 days.

The coordination committee comprises Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC chief G Parameshwara, former Chief Minister and CLP leader Siddaramaiah, Congress General Secretary Venugopal and JD(S) Secretary General Danish Ali.

While Siddaramaiah is chairman of the coordination committee, Ali is convener of the coalition coordination committee.

Along with a decision to make appointments to boardsand corporations at the earliest, the committee at itsmeeting yesterday had also resolved to continue all majorpopular programmes initiated by the previous Congress government, headed by Siddaramaiah.