THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The KPCC leadership has been struggling to settle the differences between the partymen and the allies over the seat allocation for the local elections with just a day remaining to file the nomination papers.
Though Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran and Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala are trying to sort out the issues, the allies have asked their candidates to file their nominations by Wednesday.
Youth Congress leaders have complained that they were not given the seats promised to them by Mr Sudheeran. As the previous women reservation wards have been changed to general wards, male candidates have made a beeline troubling the DCCs.
“The KPCC leadership is yet to project the mayor candidate in Kochi and Thrissur which are women reservation wards,” said a Congress leader.
A UDF leader alleged that the Congress leaders had already started working in the seats earmarked for them.
“The KPCC leadership has time and again failed the UDF. When our local leaders approach the DCC leadership, they feign ignorance about the seat allocation,” said the leader.
The picture would be clear after the withdrawal of nominations on October 17.
