Congress factions in Kerala ‘wishcasting’ for their respective loyalists as KPCC president’s post comes up for grabs

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, 26th February, 2026. Police connected work extracurricular KPCC bureau successful presumption of caller clashes betwixt SFI and legislature workers pursuing yesterdays onslaught by KSU connected Health Minister Veena George, successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Thursday. PHOTO: JAYAMOHAN A / THE HINDU | Photo Credit: (File) JAYAMOHAN A.

Powerful factions successful the Congress successful Kerala are seemingly indulging successful a perchance virulent crippled of “wishcasting” by actively promoting the names of their respective radical loyalists for the upcoming station of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president.

The tract appeared unfastened for different play of aggravated intra-party manoeuvring, adjacent connected the heels of the convulsions that gripped the enactment implicit the Chief Minister’s post, with the existent incumbent KPCC president Sunny Joseph, MLA, joining the government. Mr. Joseph’s caller work has made his continued tenure arsenic the KPCC president untenable, fixed the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) “one-man-one-post-stricture.”

A Congress insider said the AICC seemed resolved to forestall the existent jockeying for the KPCC president’s station from backsliding into a self-destructive circular firing squad astatine a important clip erstwhile the “Team-UDF” seeks to formed the Left Democratic Front (LDF), inactive smarting from its historical defeat, arsenic the confederation successful disarray. 

Congress Working Committee (CWC) subordinate Kodikunnil Suresh told The Hindu that the AICC was yet to acceptable a deadline for the “inevitable” KPCC reorganisation. He said AICC wide caput successful complaint of Kerala Deepa Dasmunsi volition apt initiate the process astatine the earliest, and the reorganisation workout successful Kerala would perchance tally concurrently with akin organisational rejigs successful Tamil Nadu and Assam, among different States. 

A precocious bar

According to different elder Congress leader, the party’s High Command has reportedly acceptable a precocious barroom for the adjacent KPCC president. He claimed that societal demographics, ensuring caste and communal equilibrium successful selection, and merit would substance paramountly. “The AICC besides seems acutely alert that rifts betwixt the elected governmental enforcement and the KPCC enactment had hamstrung past UDF governments and it was loath to squander the existent nationalist goodwill,” helium added.

Also up for grabs are the posts of 2 KPCC moving presidents, A.P. Anilkumar and P.C. Vishnunadh, who person sworn successful arsenic Cabinet Ministers.

Reorganisation of YC

Congress insiders said the AICC mightiness besides undertake a full reorganisation of the Youth Congress (YC) to outpace past scandals, including those centred connected erstwhile Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil and the postulation of funds for Wayanad rehabilitation. Notably, the existent incumbent, O.J. Janeesh, has joined the Cabinet. 

Importantly, the AICC has to nominate different elder person to grip organisational affairs successful Maharashtra, fixed that Ramesh Chennithala, who was successful complaint of the State’s PCC affairs, assumed bureau arsenic the Home Minister. 

Published - May 24, 2026 04:56 p.m. IST

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