Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP Sudarshan Nachiappan, who is also the returning officer for the organisational elections countrywide, held talks with DCC and KPCC leaders here at Indira Bhavan on Wednesday.
He asked KPCC president M. M. Hassan to finalise the state’s schedule by Sept 25. DC had reported earlier that the KPCC was keen on a consensus rather than elections that can cause rifts ahead of Lok Sabha elections.
Mr Nachiappan held talks with Mr Hassan, general secretaries Thampanoor Ravi and Sooranad Rajasekharan, secretaries Pazhakulam Madhu and Jaison Joseph and Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam and Idukki DCC presidents.
Returning officers from all the 14 districts also attended the meeting. He apprised them that the party was going through a lean phase and have to regain its lost glory.
“Veteran leaders are clinging on to booth committees for several decades. They have to be removed, and newcomers and youth leaders brought to the party to revive the old charm. A comprehensive change has to be brought to the party,” said Mr Nachiappan.
"Revive Congress" leaders comprising Dr Mathew Kuzhalnadan, R. V. Rajesh, D. V. Vinod Krishna and Ajis Ben Mathews demanded him that at least 50 percent fresh faces should be brought into the PCC, of which strictly 30 percent should be former Youth Congress state office bearers and district presidents below 45. As per the AICC’s plan, by October first week the new AICC president will be appointed where current vice-president Rahul Gandhi is expected to take over his new role.
