Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has requested the party's national president Sonia Gandhi to take "strict and befitting disciplinary action" against All India Congress Committee (AICC) member and former Union Minister Professor K.V. Thomas for breach of organisational discipline.
In a letter to Ms. Gandhi, KPCC president K. Sudhakaran said Prof. Thomas had defied party diktat and attended a seminar at the venue of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] party congress in Kannur.
He said Prof. Thomas's presence at the CPI(M) function was an affront to the memory of 80 Congress activists who had lost their lives to Marxist violence over the years.