THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With no affirmation but from the Congress high command on fielding Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, there's confusion a number of the party’s rank and report in Kerala.
The jubilation with which the scoop of the Congress president possibly contesting from a seat in Kerala was greeted with on Saturday has been replaced with sullen silence, especially after senior Delhi-based party chief P C Chacko forged doubts on Rahul getting into the fray in Wayanad. “The AICC and Rahul Gandhi have now not taken this type of determination. It is herbal that from every state there will probably be a requirement for Rahul Gandhi to contest. Hence, this should be observed as one such demand,’’ Chacko informed Malayalam tv channels on Sunday.
Chacko, who was denied a seat this time from Kerala as each ‘I’ and ‘A’ factions – led respectively through Ramesh Chennithala and Oommen Chandy – have been vehemently hostile to it, additionally blamed the party’s state leaders for spreading false studies.
However, senior Congress leaders within the state persevered to say that it was just a matter of formal announcement. “The central election committee has to claim the candidature of the AICC president and the state leadership can't do it. There is little need for any confusion, Rahul is going to contest from Wayanad,’’ AICC common secretary and previous leader minister Chandy said on Sunday. The indisputable fact that Wayanad has now not figured within the ninth list of candidates introduced through AICC on Sunday has additionally given them hope. The Karnataka PCC had stored Bidar constituency vacant for Rahul, and similarly Tamil Nadu PCC had earmarked Sivaganga constituency for him, but with AICC announcing candidates for each seats, the Wayanad possibility seems open.
The election screening committee of the AICC is meeting on Monday in New Delhi and is expected to take a last call on the matter. “If Rahul contests from Kerala, all 20 seats will move to UDF. That will probably be the kind of affect it's going to create on this election,’’ Chennithala reiterated on Sunday.
The jubilation with which the scoop of the Congress president possibly contesting from a seat in Kerala was greeted with on Saturday has been replaced with sullen silence, especially after senior Delhi-based party chief P C Chacko forged doubts on Rahul getting into the fray in Wayanad. “The AICC and Rahul Gandhi have now not taken this type of determination. It is herbal that from every state there will probably be a requirement for Rahul Gandhi to contest. Hence, this should be observed as one such demand,’’ Chacko informed Malayalam tv channels on Sunday.
Chacko, who was denied a seat this time from Kerala as each ‘I’ and ‘A’ factions – led respectively through Ramesh Chennithala and Oommen Chandy – have been vehemently hostile to it, additionally blamed the party’s state leaders for spreading false studies.
However, senior Congress leaders within the state persevered to say that it was just a matter of formal announcement. “The central election committee has to claim the candidature of the AICC president and the state leadership can't do it. There is little need for any confusion, Rahul is going to contest from Wayanad,’’ AICC common secretary and previous leader minister Chandy said on Sunday. The indisputable fact that Wayanad has now not figured within the ninth list of candidates introduced through AICC on Sunday has additionally given them hope. The Karnataka PCC had stored Bidar constituency vacant for Rahul, and similarly Tamil Nadu PCC had earmarked Sivaganga constituency for him, but with AICC announcing candidates for each seats, the Wayanad possibility seems open.
The election screening committee of the AICC is meeting on Monday in New Delhi and is expected to take a last call on the matter. “If Rahul contests from Kerala, all 20 seats will move to UDF. That will probably be the kind of affect it's going to create on this election,’’ Chennithala reiterated on Sunday.
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