KPCC president post: Confused Sudarshan Nachiappan to leave today
Unfortunately it was alleged later that it was a bogus list of booth committee leaders as the original ones were chucked out.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: AICC returning officer for Kerala Sudarshan Nachiappan will be leaving for New Delhi on Wednesday after undertaking a massive exercise of meeting scores of Congress leaders and supporters which could lead to a consensus on the leadership. On the other hand, chairman of the election authority Mullapally Ramachandran has been inundated with memorandums against the groups’ decision to agree on a consensus on organisational revamping. The 69-year old Mr Nachiappan who has been at Indira Bhavan since Sunday has met all the DCC presidents, MPs, MLAs, KPCC office-bearers, women leaders and party supporters.
He was in a dilemma as how to move about despite the two prominent factions in the state agreeing for a consensus rather than going for elections. The disgruntled Congress leaders and Youth Congress leaders are upset with the KPCC leadership for not holding the elections despite Mr Ramachandram giving it two months to complete the process. They have not even prepared a delegates’ list. “Despite the hue and cry over not publishing the delegates list, the two factions decided to share the seats on a 50:50 formula,” said a KPCC general secretary. “Even posts at the lower strata which had to be reported to the central election authority have always been shared equally by the two groups.”
A confused Mr Nachiappan asked the DCC presidents during his interaction to come out with a voters’ list from their respective districts which showed his desperation at a group-riddled Congress politics. Mr Ramachandran had expected that members of the high power political affairs committee would raise their voice against the group leaders’ decision to root for consensus on seat-sharing. But this did not happen as majority of the 21-member committee kept mum except former KPCC president V.M. Sudheeran who openly challenged the seat-sharing mechanism. But the irony was that Mr Sudheeran had created history in 2014 holding elections in 21,458 booth committees in one go. Unfortunately it was alleged later that it was a bogus list of booth committee leaders as the original ones were chucked out.