Down and out, Congress in for whole overhaul

Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An overhaul from high to backside is what the Congress management plans for reviving the occasion which confronted a humiliating defeat within the meeting polls. The overhaul will guarantee all jumbo committees of the district Congress committees and Pradesh Congress Committee are changed with slimmer and extra skilled formations. 

The restructuring of the organisation shall be held after correct pointers are ready on the two-day Political Affairs Committee (PAC) assembly scheduled for May 18 and 19. Friday’s daylong PAC assembly that was attended by senior leaders together with Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala and Mullappally Ramachandran and joined by AICC common secretary Tariq Anwar just about determined in opposition to any knee-jerk response because the scenario could be very severe and wishes cautious dealing with.

A call on whether or not there shall be any change on the helm of state management and Congress parliamentary occasion shall be taken by nationwide management later. With AICC set to elect the occasion’s new nationwide president and Congress Working Committee subsequent month, the change of guard in state could also be delayed to be timed together with that.

Chandy owns up accountability for Cong’s dismal failure in elections

It is learnt that apart from veteran chief P J Kurien, no different member of the PAC attacked the management of occasion state president Mullappally Ramachandran and Ramesh Chennithala in the course of the assembly. Kurien stated factionalism is the bane of the state Congress and alleged there was no collective resolution making within the occasion. 

At the assembly, former chief minister Oommen Chandy owned up the accountability for the dismal failure within the elections because the chairman of the 10-member Election Management and Strategy Committee. Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala maintained that he’s prepared to just accept no matter resolution the excessive command takes. The PAC assembly concluded {that a} weak occasion equipment, organisational lapses, scarcity of funds and flaws in election preparations and campaigning are the main causes that led to the defeat.

Tariq Anwar, who attended the assembly on-line from New Delhi, zeroed in on three causes for the ballot setback — overconfidence, groupism and organisational weak spot. He has promised the occasion employees of taking on quick and long-term remedial measures to strengthen the occasion. The central Congress observers, Mallikarjun Kharge and V Vaithilingam, shall be attending the PAC assembly on May 18 and 19. The Congress parliamentary occasion assembly may also be held to decide on the brand new opposition chief.