KOCHI: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), which has been in a revamp mode during the last couple of months, is in for a major surprise. With the leadership failing to sort out the internal conflicts, the KPCC and the district committees will not be getting new office bearers for at least a year. Even when KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said that the reorganisation of the party was not a closed chapter and the process would begin from the grass-root level, senior leaders gave the thumbs down to the claim stating that the revamp would not take place at least for a year.“The revamp is only going to happen after the party’s mahasammelan in Thiruvananthapuram in August,” a senior leader said. He said that the leaders in both the A and I groups are in a dilemma over the revamp. It’s yet to be finalised whether revamp process has to be started before or after the mahasammelan. “The AICC is busy with the polls and bypolls in several states. Moreover, the leadership does not want to have any conflicts within the party during the time of Piravom by-elections,” he said.The general secretaries of several committees formed ahead of the Mahasammelan would have to resign if the revamp happens. “So there is no way that organisational revamp would take place before it,” he said. Though the leadership was about to finalise the list of new office bearers, according to sources, a last minute tug-of-war between Chennithala and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy stalled the process. It has been learned that they have almost reached a consensus.Another issue that the party is facing is the inclusion of the leaders who had returned to the party along with late K Karunakaran and former KPCC president K Muraleedharan.Meanwhile, many of the senior leaders have come out against the inclusion of youngsters and other new faces in the KPCC and DCC. They say that if youngsters and new faces who have little political experience are inducted, then it would have adverse effects on the party. “There will be a leadership gap if the young and new faces are included,” he said. On the other hand, youngsters say that they have been in the party for many years and are yet got any real recognition.As part of the ‘one man one post’ policy of the party, several MLAs and ministers will have to relinquish their position in the KPCC and the DCC, to which most are unwilling. Several among them, including M I Shanavas, M K Raghavan, Peethambara Kurup, T N Pratapan, Mullapally Ramachandran, Benny Behanan and Joseph Vazhakkan will have to resign from their respective posts.
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