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The All India Congress Committee (AICC) connected Friday got down to the brass tacks of strategising and readying for the Assembly elections successful Kerala. AICC nationalist president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi held a elaborate round-table treatment successful New Delhi with the Congress apical brass from Kerala, including Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph, MLA; Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan; United Democratic Front (UDF) convener Adoor Prakash; and elder Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and M.M. Hassan.
Congress Working Committee (CWC) subordinate Shashi Tharoor, who is successful Kozhikode for the Kerala Literature Festival, told reporters that helium would be the gathering remotely, rejecting reports of a rift with the nationalist leadership. A Congress insider said respective issues were connected the table, including the archetypal signifier of campaigner selection. The meeting, helium said, weighed the electoral pros and cons of whether sitting enactment MPs should contention the Assembly polls, a question that had dogged the KPCC successful the predetermination year, resulting successful contradictory nationalist statements from leaders.
He said the gathering would laic the groundwork for engaging allies, chiefly the Indian Union Muslim League and Kerala Congress parties, connected seat-sharing, including swapping constituencies, peculiarly successful cardinal and northbound Kerala. According to enactment sources, the KPCC is of the overwhelming presumption that sitting MLAs should contention again, but for a fewer idiosyncratic leaders who mightiness question an objection connected wellness and property grounds. They said the Congress mightiness contention successful much seats and leaders from the younger property demographic, including the Youth Congress, volition apt beryllium successful the fray to regain mislaid governmental ground.
On SNDP Yogam, NSS
The gathering took spot against the backdrop of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam and the Nair Service Society (NSS) broadcasting a dim presumption of Congress’s electoral prospects, contempt the Opposition’s comparatively bully showing successful the section assemblage polls. According to Congress sources, the AICC appeared poised to mend fences with the 2 large Hindu societal organisations, which had gravitated distant from the UDF, accusing the enactment of disparaging bulk assemblage leaders to corral fundamentalist votes. The circular array besides discussed the imaginable governmental trajectory of the NSS-SNDP Yogam’s “newfound unity connected shared interests” and who the compact would electorally benefit.
A KPCC insider said helium was unsure whether the gathering discussed the Sabarimala golden theft, which has enactment erstwhile Congress-led Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) administrations connected the defensive.
