No leak of DCC list: KPCC prez

Thiruvananthapuram: KPCC president K Sudhakaran has denied reports that the list of new presidents of district congress committees submitted by him to the AICC has been leaked through social media. He said all such reports are baseless, and the list is still under the consideration of the party high command.
The list submitted by the KPCC president had hit a controversy since the dominant groups in the party alleged that their nominees have been sidelined from the list.
Prominent group leaders Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala had approached the party high command alleging that they had not been consulted while preparing the list of new presidents. These two group leaders and their group managers feared that Sudhakaran and opposition leader V D Satheesan are sidelining them when the new list was submitted to the party high command.
However, Sudhakaran is firm on the list he has submitted and made it clear to the party high command that all these years the group leaders were finalizing the list without proper consultations in the party. But this time, it was made clear that no group affiliations would be considered while deciding the new presidents.
However, Chandy and Chennithala are of the view that the new list features names of leaders who are the nominees of Sudhkaran, Satheesan and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal. These two leaders fear that they will lose their grip on the party if the party high command approves the list submitted by the KPCC president, which has the support of Satheesan and Venugopal.
Sudhakaran has also urged the party high command that strict action should be taken against leaders who have worked against the official candidates of the party in the recent assembly election. Several party candidates and even constituent parties had alleged that certain Congress leaders in their constituencies had worked against them in the election to ensure their defeat.