Congress divided over selection of Thodupuzha municipal chairman nominee

Sharp dissent has surfaced wrong the Congress implicit the enactment of the municipal chairperson for the Thodupuzha municipality, wherever the enactment won with a bully borderline of seats successful the section assemblage election.

During the predetermination campaign, the enactment had projected Nisha Soman for the chairperson’s post. However, successful a abrupt shift, 9 retired of the 10 Congress councillors submitted a missive to the District Congress Committee (DCC) and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) presidents demanding the assignment of Litty Joseph arsenic the chairperson of the municipality.

The rift became nationalist arsenic posters appeared crossed Thodupuzha town. Attributed to “Congress workers”, the posters alleged that the municipality does not request a “rubber stamp” chairperson and criticised the projected enactment change.

A elder Congress person stated that a UDF gathering connected Wednesday evening would finalise a solution. “The enactment is considering whether Ms Soman volition service arsenic chairperson for this word oregon a consequent one,” the person said.

In the section assemblage election, UDF gained powerfulness successful Kattappana municipality with 20 seats, and LDF got 12 seats. In Thodupuzha municipality, LDF won lone 3 seats, and UDF won 19 seats. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 9 seats. The governmental numbers successful the 34-member Thodupuzha municipality remains delicate. Following the 2020 section assemblage elections, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) won 13 seats, the UDF won 12, and the BJP secured eight, portion a Congress rebel moving arsenic an autarkic won 1 seat. The LDF primitively seized powerfulness successful 2020 by awarding the chairmanship to the Independent Congress rebel, Saneesh George.

Meanwhile, the UDF has finalised enactment for the Kattappana municipality successful the district. UDF territory president Joy Vettikkuzhi has been selected arsenic the chairperson, with Leelamma Baby arsenic vice-chairperson. According to enactment sources, Mr. Vettikkuzhi volition service for the adjacent 3 years, aft which different campaigner volition beryllium selected to implicit the term.