The Kerala unit of the Congress appears to be on the brink of a renewed bout of factional fighting that threatens to further divide the arguably beleaguered party as it forged ahead with the troublesome reorganisation process.
Speculation was rife on Sunday that the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), the trade union wing of the Congress, had asked the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) to make its position clear on Mr. Satheesan's controversial remark about the union.
Compelled to distance the Congress from strike-related violence, Mr. Satheesan had said that the INTUC was the Congress's feeder organisation. Later, Mr. Satheesan clarified that the INTUC played a different political role and was neither the "Mahila Congress nor the Seva Dal". Most Congress leaders had an INTUC background.
