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Congress’s MLA-elects from crossed Kerala made a beeline for the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office astatine the Indira Bhavan successful Thiruvananthapuram for a closed-door gathering astatine 1 p.m. connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), up of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) much-anticipated and somewhat long-drawn-out announcement of its pick for Kerala’s adjacent United Democratic Front (UDF) Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, Congress workers trickled into enactment offices successful the State, arsenic their eagerness to cognize the enactment precocious command’s prime for the apical station appeared to scope a feverish pitch. The keenly expectant enactment workers gathering successful sizeable numbers successful beforehand of the District Congress Committee (DCC) offices appeared comparatively tame compared to the past 10 days of raucous displays of factional loyalties and vying poster campaigns successful the aftermath of the declaration of the predetermination results connected May 4.
Television camera crews staked retired successful beforehand of the residences of the purported apical contenders for the post, including erstwhile Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan astatine Paravoor successful Ernakulam, elder person Ramesh Chennithala successful Thiruvananthapuram, and AICC wide secretary, K C Venugopal, MP, successful New Delhi, adding to the temper of governmental suspense that seemed to person pervaded Kerala’s polity.
So far, the AICC has successfully kept its prime a intimately guarded secret, seemingly rendering the “leadership contest” a cliffhanger close up to the last whistle.
AICC wide caput successful complaint of Kerala, Deepadas Munsi, volition be the important gathering of the Congress’s Legislative Party (CLP) designates. She is expected to get astatine the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport astatine 11 a.m.
A KPCC insider said it was apt that Ms. Munsi mightiness pass the enactment precocious command’s determination to the MLA-designates earlier the All India Congress Committee (AICC) makes the authoritative announcement from New Delhi. He said the Congress was besides apt to question an assignment with the Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar astatine the earliest arsenic a archetypal measurement towards authorities formation.
Leader of the Opposition successful the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi, and AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge had held a closed-door gathering successful New Delhi to instrumentality a last telephone connected the enactment question and deferred the announcement to Thursday (May 14, 2026).
Faced with opposing rallies and posters successful enactment of the 3 Chief Minister probables, elder person Jairam Ramesh, had told reporters successful New Delhi connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026), somewhat cryptically, that the precocious bid would origin successful nationalist sentiment concerning the Kerala Chief Minister’s post.
Meanwhile, United Democratic Front (UDF) constituents, including Kerala Congress (Joseph) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leaders, person sought an assignment with Mr. Arlekar ostensibly to manus implicit letters supporting the Congress’s prospective government.
Meanwhile, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) enactment is scheduled to convene astatine the location of the party’s State president, Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal, astatine Panakkad successful Malappuram to laic the groundwork for authorities formation, including finalising the party’s choices for the adjacent UDF cabinet.
