The Congress Party has set up a 12 member panel to finalize campaign program and strategy for its presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Pranab will file his nomination on 28 June. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi will be among top UPA leaders who will propose Mukherjee's name when he files his papers. The campaign panel will meet on Tuesday and is expected to finetune the campaign of Mukherjee, who will also step down as finance minister on the same day.

Apart from Pranab Mukherjee, the Committee has senior ministers and party leaders as its members. The ministerial members are AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Ambika Soni, Rajiv Shukla, Pawan Kumar Bansal and PS Ghatowar. The other members are Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Janardhan Dwivedi, Oscar Fernandes, Girija Vyas and PJ Kurien. Mukherjee will file his papers for the July 19 Presidential poll on June 28, AICC general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters on Monday after the CWC meeting which bid a fond farewell to the Congress stalwart. June 30 is the last day for filing of nominations. Pranab is expected to launch his campaign from Chennai on June 30 and then visit Hyderabad and Bangalore the next day.