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Amid the continuing situation wrong the Congress implicit the enactment of a Chief Minister for Kerala, All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge volition clasp discussions with the large leaders successful contention, specified arsenic K.C. Venugopal, V.D. Satheesan, and Ramesh Chennithala, on with KPCC president Sunny Joseph and different leaders connected Saturday (May 9, 2026) evening. The gathering is expected to effect successful a last determination connected the important post.
According to sources, Congress person Rahul Gandhi is apt to conscionable the Kerala leaders lone aft a statement emerges from the gathering chaired by Mr. Kharge.
Mr. Kharge is expected to clasp discussions with the Kerala leaders based connected the study submitted by the AICC observers sent to the State. Mr. Gandhi had instructed that immoderate determination connected the Chief Minister’s station should beryllium taken lone aft taking the 3 prospective candidates into confidence, though the last determination rests with the Congress precocious command.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kharge directed the State enactment to instrumentality strict enactment against those violating enactment subject and decorum successful transportation with the Chief Minister contention successful Kerala. The precocious bid has conveyed that immoderate effort to tarnish the party’s representation volition not beryllium tolerated.
KPCC president Mr. Sunny Joseph told the media that the last determination connected the Chief Minister’s station would beryllium made by the Congress precocious bid and that the KPCC has nary relation successful it. Seeking a broader consensus, Congress person K. Muraleedharan said that the views of the constituent parties successful the United Democratic Front (UDF), on with the opinions of the MLAs, should beryllium considered successful the statement implicit the Chief Ministerial candidate. Rejecting the poster campaigns led by antithetic factions, Mr. Muraleedharan said that flex boards and processions would not power the enactment of the Chief Minister and that seniority unsocial should not find the choice.
Meanwhile, supporters of assorted factions enactment up wide flex boards successful respective parts of the State connected Saturday, including successful Thiruvananthapuram, wherever posters opposing Mr. Satheesan’s candidature appeared.
Flex boards supporting Mr. Venugopal appeared successful Mr. Satheesan’s constituency arsenic well. Meanwhile, a protestation was staged successful Malappuram, during which Mr. Venugopal’s flex boards were defaced with spray paint. A flex committee enactment up successful beforehand of the DCC bureau successful the sanction of the Janakiya Munnani extended enactment for Mr. Satheesan.
