The traditional ‘A’ and ‘I’ groups in the Congress who feel they are being squeezed out of positions of power in the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) during the party’s ongoing reorganisation drive seem resolved not to go down without a fight.
The competing factions have struck an uneasy alliance to present their case before the party’s high command when All India Congress Committee general secretary Tariq Anwar arrives for parleys in Kerala on June 12.
The traditional blocks allege that an emergent third group purportedly led by Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and PCC president K. Sudhakaran, MP, has manoeuvred to pack leadership slots from the block president and upwards with their loyalists.
