THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KPCC president K Sudhakaran and opposition leader V D Satheesan will hold a final round of talks with the Congress party high command on Tuesday regarding the appointment of the new presidents for the district Congress committees in the state.
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is likely to announce the new names this week itself.
The party high command has called both the leaders to New Delhi for discussion.
The high command had also received complaints from senior leaders in the state Ramesh Chennithala and Oommen Chandy that they were not consulted while preparing the list of the new presidents.
Both Chandy and Chennithala had complained to the high command that their nominees were not considered by Sudhakaran while preparing the list. Even former KPCC presidents V M Sudheeran and Mullappally Ramachandran also raised the same complaint that they were not consulted.
Hence the high command is likely to consider the requests of the senior leaders before finalizing the names of the district Congress presidents. Sudhakaran had submitted a panel of names in each district to the AICC.
He had made it clear that the list was prepared purely based on merit and no group affiliations were considered.
AICC general secretary Tariq Anwar had contacted both Chennithala and Chandy following their complaints. Now, the leaders in the state are eagerly waiting to know whether the party high command will concede to the demands of the group managers or will act neutrally.
During the appointment of Sudhakaran as the party president and Satheesan as the opposition leader, the Congress high command was not ready to bow to the demands of the group leaders.
