Congress president Sonia Gandhi has constituted this seven-member committee under the AICC general secretary in charge of the state Prithviraj Chavan, while bitter Hooda-critic and Haryana’s former Finance minister Birender Singh has been made its co-chairman.

The other members include state unit president Phool Chand Mullana, Union Tourism Minister Selja, Member of Parliament Ram Prakash and Haryana’s Finance Minister Ajay Singh Yadav. Sources in the Congress said that the committee has been constituted to regulate the working of the government as also to build bridges between the government and the party.

The committee will give "directions" to the new government for implementation of the promises made in the party manifesto during the election campaign,” Birender Singh said. While the constitution of the committee at such an early stage of government formation has come as a surprise, leaders said that the attempt would be to ensure that the government does not “commit a faux pas which will cost the party dear”.