Mahila Congress remains headless

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KPCC general secretary Lathika Subhash, former All-India Youth Congress general secretary Deepthi Mary Varghese and current vice-president Fathima Rosna are on the race for the Mahila Congress state president, a post that fell vacant after Bindu Krishna was appointed Kollam DCC chief. At present, Ms Krishna takes up the additional charge of heading the Mahila Congress when it comes to certain women centric issues. Mahila Congress national president Sobha Ojha had requested Ms Krishna to hold the post when the latter sent her resignation as president of the State Mahila Congress when she was appointed as Kollam DCC president last December.

The process to poick a new president made little headway as Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi got busy with the elections in five states and then KPCC leadership had the Malappuram Lok Sabha by-election to handle. When the clamour for the organisational election was raised by a section of the KPCC leadership, the general sentiment was that Mahila Congress president will be chosen only after the organisational elections are completed by September. Ms Krishna told DC that the central Mahila Congress leadership had asked her to continue until the new replacement is chosen by the AICC leadership.

“A panel of names has already been given to Ms Ojha comprising Lathika Subhash, Deepthi Mary Varghese and Fathima Rosna,” she said.  “There are other senior leaders who would given their names to the central leadership directly.” Of the three women, 52-year old Lathika Subhash has often lost key postings between the cup and the lip on many occasions. Recently, her name was projected as Kottayam DCC president post, but the proposal fell through in the last moment. Deepthi Mary Varghese, 41, has not been active in politics for the last few years, but is now hoping to make a comeback. Malappuram-based Fathima Rosna, a lawyer, was the general secretary in the previous committee headed by Shanimol Usman.