By Express News Service
KANNUR: The state Congress management’s plan to see fashionable chief Okay Sudhakaran making a mass entry because the UDF candidate in Dharmadom virtually ended on Thursday with native chief C Raghunath submitting his nomination papers. Congress was aiming to mission the competition towards Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the nationwide degree and tie him to his residence constituency for a substantial time. With the nationwide management but to verify Raghunath’s candidature, Congress stays optimistic going into the ultimate day of nomination submitting.
Congress employees eagerly waited for Sudhakaran to enter the fray and neutrals anticipated an intriguing contest involving him, Pinarayi and former BJP president C Okay Padmanabhan. Though senior leaders A Okay Antony and Oommen Chandy tried to steer him to contest and Congress chief Mullappally Ramachandran tried to place stress on him in his personal proper, Sudhakaran stood agency.
During the final elections, Pinarayi had defeated Mambaram Divakaran by 36,905 votes in Dharmadom however Sudhakaran had trailed CPM chief P Okay Sreemathy by solely 4,000 votes within the constituency whereas contesting from Kannur within the final Lok Sabha elections. Sudhakaran has been vehemently attacking the state Congress management through the finalising of candidates and had he determined to contest, it might have given them some respite.
Rajmohan tries to pacify Sudhakaran
Sudhakaran has been concentrating on Mullappally and AICC normal secretary Okay C Venugopal, who’s near Rahul Gandhi, MP. Kasaragod MP Rajmohan Unnithan has intervened to pacify Sudhakaran and make him work for the victory of UDF candidates in Kannur.
“Sudhakaran should have avoided making public statements. Despite A K Antony’s call to maintain decorum, Sudhakaran created issues. If the Congress leadership really wanted to field a formidable leader in Dharmadom, they should have held talks within the party, the moment the Forward Bloc decided not to take the seat,” a senior Congress chief advised TNIE. During the primary spherical of talks, the title of Forward Bloc nationwide normal secretary G Devarajan did the rounds, however he refused to battle towards the CPM in Kerala. The mom of the 2 Walayar victims refused to contest below the Congress image.
LOOKING FORWARDKannur DCC secretary C Raghunath information his nomination papers as UDF candidate after Okay Sudhakaran opts out National management but to verify Raghunath’s candidatureSome of the Congress employees in Kannur count on Sudhakaran to make last-minute entry Pinarayi Vijayan (CPM) and C Okay Padmanabhan (BJP) are in fray
