DCC presidents to not be eliminated earlier than polls

Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: None of the 14 DCC presidents can be faraway from workplace earlier than the Assembly elections. Even although the choice is anticipated to carry reduction to them, the AICC’s choice that none of them must be fielded within the meeting elections has come as a shocker to them. If the choice is carried out, it’s anticipated to set off additional points within the occasion.

Following the setback within the civic physique elections, the AICC had conveyed to the UDF allies that ‘corrective measures’ can be taken to handle organisational lapses. This concerned these DCC presidents who had put up a dismal efficiency within the civic physique ballot. The axe to fall was anticipated to occur on Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta and Kasaragod DCC presidents. Also, the DCC presidents belonging to Ernakulam, Palakkad and Wayanad had been additionally anticipated to be modified as they had been holding twin posts.

But following widespread opposition from incumbent DCC chiefs and with meeting elections quick approaching, there was a rethink on the a part of the AICC. A prime KPCC official confirmed to TNIE that not one of the 14 DCC presidents can be eliminated till the meeting elections are over.

“With the Ramadan season starting in April,  assembly elections are expected to happen any time soon. The AICC has decided that DCC presidents should not be in the fray. Also, if KPCC office-bearers have to contest, they will have to first resign from office. The AICC is taking swift decisions which will give opportunities to newcomers, youth and woman candidates,” stated a prime KPCC official.

However, a DCC president from Malabar area stated such a call, if carried out, can have far-reaching penalties. “When a candidate is considered, it is the winnability followed by giving adequate representation to newcomers, youth and women which are of utmost priority. It is not going to help the Congress by keeping  DCC presidents away from the fray,” stated the DCC chief.Several DCC presidents TNIE spoke to additionally expressed their displeasure. 

AICC observers in state todayT’Puram: The three AICC observers appointed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on January 6 in view of the meeting elections, will attain the state for a two-day go to on Friday. The observers are Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro and former Karnataka deputy CM G Parameswara. While Faleiro and Parameswara will arrive in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday morning, Gehlot will attain by 8pm. He can be accompanied by AICC organising normal secretary Okay C Venugopal and AICC normal secretary in-charge of the state Tariq Anwar.

The trio will keep at a five-star lodge at Aakkulam right here. UDF allies can be huddled with the AICC delegation on Friday for a dinner assembly on the lodge.  “The delegation will hold a breakfast meeting with KPCC leaders, including MPs and MLAs, on Saturday,” a prime KPCC office-bearer instructed TNIE. “The trio will then come to Indira Bhavan by 9.30am and chair the first sitting of the recently-appointed 10-member Election Management and Strategy Committee of the KPCC headed by Congress Working Committee leader Oommen Chandy. This will be followed by the KPCC office-bearers’ meeting at Indira Bhavan at 11am,” stated a prime KPCC workplace bearer. The delegation will return to New Delhi on Saturday night.