Thiruvananthapuram: The AICC leadership will invite 50 leaders from Kerala for a day-long brainstorming session in New Delhi in the first week of July. The KPCC executive camp had appointed Mr V. D. Satheeshan committee on strengthening the party from the grassroots level, but Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will invite only senior leaders to New Delhi. The meeting, likely to be held on July 7, will sort out the issues in Kerala as the two factions in the Congress are up in arms against KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran for the party’s drubbing in the elections.
A senior AICC leader told DC that they were fed up of factional politics despite sending out stern messages to the senior KPCC leaders. “The session would deal with the strategy to take the party forward. Most of the senior leaders of KPCC know what is best for the party’s growth in the state,” he said. A section of Congress leaders feels that the Satheeshan committee’s recommendations should have been incorporated in the Delhi meeting.
When the second sitting of the committee was convened the other day at the KPCC office, it was decided to send out letters to DCC presidents, MLAs, MPs and senior leaders seeking their recommendations and suggestions on how to strengthen the party. “Their report will be received only by July 15. The committee is seeking recommendations right from the micro-level of the party cadre,” said a Congress leader. The state Youth Congress leaders may be called for a meeting at a later stage. KPCC leadership has submitted the names of 100 members to the AICC which would be shortlisted soon.
