Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh made the news public that four names had been sent by the party to the Centre after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju requested the same. They were all senior Congress leaders: Anand Sharma, Gaurav Gogoi, Dr. Syed Naseer Hussain, and Raja Brar. Only one of them, Anand Sharma, was chosen from among them. Other Congress members elected by the government are Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, and Dr. Amar Singh, all of whom were not on the Congress high command's shortlist.
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