Kerala polls: Ex-Congress MLA Gopinath rebels towards occasion’s youth wing chief in Palakkad

Express News Service
PALAKKAD: Former DCC president A V Gopinath has raised the banner of revolt towards his occasion and Youth Congress state president Shafi Parambil who’s almost definitely to contest from the Palakkad meeting constituency.

Gopinath is banking on the help from the LDF which had completed third within the constituency within the 2016 elections. 

Gopinath, who can be a former MLA, instructed TNIE that the Congress has been sidelining him for the previous a few years and he isn’t going to take it mendacity down anymore. He added that he’s ready for a response from the Congress management.

“I am not after the party ticket or any posts in the party. Pushed to the wall, I will campaign in the whole state but will never say for which party,” he mentioned.

Asked whether or not he’ll contest in Palakkad meeting seat, Gopinath mentioned he has not determined something until now. 

The CPM district secretariat which met right here on Tuesday is learnt to have really helpful the identify of C P Pramod within the seat. Party district secretary C Okay Rajendran mentioned, “Gopinath has not approached us. He still remains in Congress. Let him make his stand clear and only after that, we can discuss it.”  

District secretariat member and occasion strongman P Okay Sasi additionally mentioned Gopinath has not contacted the CPM.

“However, if he abandons Congress, the CPM is ready to welcome him. Gopinath had differences with the party for some time,” mentioned Sasi. 

Meanwhile, a senior Congress chief mentioned on situation of anonymity that Gopinath won’t ever depart the occasion.

“Everyone knows that if he contests from Palakkad even with the LDF support, he stands no chance of winning. Therefore, as far as I know, he is eyeing the post of DCC president after V K Sreekantan, MP, steps down. This posturing could be a move to get an assurance on it,” he mentioned.

In the 2016 meeting elections, CPM’s N N Krishnadas was relegated to the third place with 28.07 per cent votes, whereas Shafi bought 41.77% votes and BJP’s Sobha Surendran 29.08% votes.

When in comparison with the 2011 meeting elections, Shafi’s vote financial institution had remained kind of the identical. In 2011, Shafi had secured 42.41% votes, CPM’s Okay Okay Divakaran 35.82% and BJP’s Udayabhaskar 19.80%, which reveals that CPM votes had gone to the BJP. 

Gopinath had proved his mettle by defeating the CPM in its citadel of Alathur in 1991, the one time majority of voters turned towards CPM.

He has additionally been the president of Peringottukurissy panchayat for the previous 25 years.The BJP, however, is toying with the thought of fielding both occasion spokesman Sandeep Warrier or Metroman E Sreedharan.