March 10 :    March 10:  The executive committee of the state Congress will be formed within the next 48 hours keeping the present dual leadership intact. A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury and Priya Ranjan Das Munshi will remain president and working president, respectively. The committee is being formed after seven months of hectic lobbying by Khan Chowdhury and Das Munshi in New Delhi, each trying to upstage the other. The newly-appointed AICC general secretary in charge of West Bengal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, is frantically working on a formula to bring a semblance of unity among Khan Chowdhury and Das Munshi loyalists. He is drawing up a committee with balanced representation from both factions. Last month, the high command had sent its observer, Ram Niwas Mirdha. He found that it was virtually impossible for state party leaders to reach a consensus on a committee due to inner party squabbles. Known to be close to the Khan Chowdhury camp, Azad met the lone party MP from West Bengal as well as Das Munshi in the capital last evening. The committee will last only till August when organisational polls are scheduled. But it will conform to the AICC?s decision to have 33 per cent reservation for women and 20 per cent reservation for minorities, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. More members Going by indications, the number of members in the committee from districts is likely to increase. Ever since Khan Chowdhury and Das Munshi took charge of the party last July, the latter?s followers have been clamouring against Khan Chowdhury?s appointment, saying he should not have been made state party chief on health grounds. But differences among Khan Chowdhury and Das Munshi loyalists on the issue prevented the high command from taking a decision. With Congress chief Sonia Gandhi pushing for organisational polls in August, the high command decided to form an interim committee for West Bengal. Party insiders said there had been pressure earlier to exclude leaders like Pradip Bhattacharya, Manas Bhuniya, Gobinda Naskar, Satya Bapuli, Zainal Abedin and Pradyut Guha. ?During their tenure the party performed miserably in the Lok Sabha polls. In fact, we fell flat on our face and the Trinamul emerged with flying colours. The party does not require such leaders,? a senior leader said.