Oommen Chandy decides to keep off from Political Affairs Committee

Thiruvananthapuram: Former chief minister Oommen Chandy has rebuffed all attempts made by the AICC to make him toe the line and is firm on remaining as an ordinary party worker. He has decided to keep off the Political Affairs Committee meeting and has made no secret of his displeasure against the leadership for ignoring his camp in the appointments of the new DCC presidents.

KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran and Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala had not taken him into confidence in the mater.

“Chandy will not attend the PAC meeting being chaired by Sudheeran. He will take part in  the party meetings but not in those  being directly organised by the KPCC leadership.  He can’t be taken for granted and the state Congress cannot go on without him,”  said a  Congress leader.

The ‘A’ group leaders and PAC members K. C. Joseph and Benny Behanan have asked Mr Sudheeran to hold the PAC meeting next week.  While the ‘A’ camp is baying for Mr Sudheeran’s blood, Mr Chennithala’s ‘I’ camp is treading cautiously.

A  KPCC general secretary took a dig at Mr  Sudheeran citing that he was too busy organising memorial programmes or making statements and could not face the challenge posed by the BJP. In contrast,      Mr Chandy on Saturday hit out against the Union government saying that  blacklisted British firm De La Rue was among the companies enlisted by the centre  for printing plastic notes.

The AICC  has invited all the 14 DCC presidents to New Delhi for talks on steering the party forward.