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All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal has reportedly said astatine the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) enactment gathering that determination would beryllium nary 2nd chances oregon posts offered to prospective enactment candidates who neglect successful the 2026 Assembly elections.
According to enactment sources, Mr. Venugopal termed the polls arsenic an existential battle. He said meritocracy would play a large relation successful campaigner selection.
The sources said they could not remark connected whether the gathering had considered fielding Congress MPs successful the Assembly polls to amended the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) chances of winning. However, they said incumbent Congress MLAs stood a amended accidental of moving the gauntlet successful their location turf, but possibly successful the Palakkad Assembly segment.
They said the Congress mightiness assistance an allowance to elder leaders, if they requested, to enactment retired of the fray.
At the meeting, the party’s booth committees were asked to behaviour location visits and prosecute voters successful doorstep conversations to unafraid votes successful favour of the UDF successful the 2026 Assembly elections.
Mr. Venugopal chaired the meeting, which projected an eight-day run arsenic a antagonistic to the Left Democratic Front (LDF)’s household-level outreach programme involving apical leaders including Ministers.
Congress leaders would oversee the door-to-door campaigning.
