Sonia Gandhi to fulfill Congress leaders from state on Monday

Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The AICC management has been sad with the KPCC management for the inordinate delay in submitting the record of possible DCC presidents, regardless of the AICC delegation tenting within the state for greater than two weeks.The three new senior AICC observers, Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot, former chief minister of Goa, Luizinho Falerio and former deputy chief minister of Karnataka, Dr G Parameswara might be arriving in Thiruvananthapuram on January 22-23 for overseeing Election Campaign Management and Coordination within the state.

Now all eyes are on Congress president Sonia Gandhi after Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala has already left for New Delhi. KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran and CWC member Oommen Chandy might be flying on Sunday for the essential talks with Sonia Gandhi on Monday.

She has additionally summoned the three AICC secretaries to New Delhi on Monday to get a first-hand report within the presence of the three high Kerala leaders. AICC organising common secretary Okay C Venugopal and common secretary in-charge of the state, Tariq Anwar, may also be huddled with the leaders. The three AICC observers may also be touring the state throughout their two-day stint right here. A big part of  Congress leaders are hoping that Sonia Gandhi is not going to toe the road of the group leaders if the UDF has to place up a battle within the Assembly elections.

“The CPM is going to field young and vibrant candidates who’re between 30-40 years in the Assembly election. If the Congress keeps entertaining group interests and old hands, then they can sit permanently in the Opposition. The AICC leadership has realised this and it has decided to take proactive steps after the Congress leaders failed to emerge victorious in the 2016 Assembly elections and in the recent civic body elections. Sonia Gandhi is expected to give a set of guidelines and will ask the KPCC leaders to work accordingly”, a senior Congress MP instructed TNIE.

If over the past Assembly elections, scarcity of election funds was a ‘vexatious’ challenge, this time Sonia Gandhi has instructed Kerala leaders that she’s going to be sure that all of the 90 Congress candidates within the fray get sufficient funds. This was the identical challenge the Congress candidates had skilled within the civic physique elections too which resulted in a serious ballot debacle.