Hurt Chennithala to Sonia Gandhi: Oommen Chandy’s posting price expensive in Kerala polls

By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pained by his elimination from the Opposition chief submit, Ramesh Chennithala, in a strongly worded letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, stated the celebration excessive command’s choice to nominate the election administration committee headed by Oommen Chandy alienated Hindu voters from the celebration and UDF. This was one of many main causes for the Congress’ ballot debacle within the state, he stated.

In the letter, he stated, “Despite performing efficiently throughout the tenure, that too when the opposition activities were crippled by Covid, I was sidelined and humiliated by appointing an election management committee headed by Chandy at the fag end of my tenure, even after Chandy himself never wanted the same. That was one of the reasons for losing the Hindu votes,” he stated. 

Chennithala pained over manner he was proven door

He additionally expressed his deep ache and anguish over the way in which he was proven the door quickly after the ballot debacle. When the discussions for electing the brand new Congress legislative celebration (CLP) chief within the meeting began, Chandy requested Congress basic secretary Okay C Venugopal personally whether or not there was any choice from the excessive command to vary the CLP chief and the reply was a categorical ‘no’. “I personally asked Mallikarjun Kharge (who headed the fact-finding team) the same question and the answer was again a categorical ‘no’.”

He stated if he got any indication that the celebration was planning to take away him, he would have gracefully opted out. “Then, I could have publicly announced that I am opting out of the race. This would have been an honourable exit for me. I feel this was deliberately kept out of my purview and selective leaks were made to the media that I had been trying to hold on to the post, damaging my hard-earned reputation. I am deeply pained and anguished by the way the whole issue was handled. It has tarnished my image badly and had bruised my heart.”

Chennithala stated that in his profession spanning over 40 years, he had a blemish-less observe file. There have been additionally planted media reviews that he was not having fun with the help of Sonia and Rahul, which pained him so much, he stated within the letter. He additionally claimed he nonetheless enjoys the bulk help of the MLAs within the CLP. “But, irrespective of positions, I have always been and will be loyal to you and the party.” Chennithala reminded Sonia that he had not been correctly rewarded by the celebration regardless of discharging all difficult duties assigned to him over time.