Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee upbeat over news of Rahul Gandhi taking reins
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The majority of Kerala leaders are elated at the possibility of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi taking the reins of the party as he is keen to see a fresh crop of leaders coming up at the helm. At the same time, some leaders feel nothing would change in the KPCC as the three senior leaders do not want a change.
AICC sources told DC that Mr Gandhi would review the performance of all PCCs and Kerala would have high priority. KPCC leaders feel this is the right time for him to take over the leadership from his mother as there are three more years for the national elections. Now the Congress is ruling only in few states (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram) and he has ample time 'experiment' revamping PCCs across the country.
A prominent Congress leader told DC that he is not looking for an organisational revamp, but a 'generational shift' is what is on the anvil at the AICC level which should be successfully implemented in KPCC as well.
"So far, RaGa couldn't experiment much at the national or State levels as the majority of the leaders would 'operate' directly with Sonia Gandhi. When it comes to the KPCC, some leaders would make sure that they deal through senior leader A. K. Antony," said a party leader.
He also added that there have been many a time when these so called leaders including the KPCC leadership misled her. Leaders cutting across group loyalties feel that once Mr Gandhi takes over, chances of a young team appointed in various PCCs cannot be ruled out. But another KPCC general secretary felt that nothing much is going to change.
The reason he cites is his intervention in holding elections in KSU and Youth Congress that flopped. "I feel Mr Gandhi is neither a practical politician nor a systematic one. At the same time I feel if he wants to revamp the state PCCs, he would be doing it first in Kerala. But it all depends on the current KPCC leadership's willingness to hold organisational elections," said a KPCC general secretary.
