Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (BPNS)
Senior leader of the Congress party from Kerala, Ramesh Chennithala finds a place only as a permanent invitee in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC). Shashi Tharoor who was part of the Group of 23 along with Mukul Wasnik, Anand Sharma, and Manish Tripathi who questioned the leadership of the party is included in the Congress Working Committee.
Veteran leader, A.K. Antony who has declared himself retiring from active politics finds a place in the Congress Working Committee along with AICC general secretary in charge of organization, K.C. Venugopal from Kerala.
It is to be noted that Ramesh Chennithala is a loyal leader of the Congress party who was a minister in the Kerala government under K. Karunakaran at an young age of 27 and was also the national president of the National Students Union (NSU) and also president of the All India Youth Congress.
Sources close to Chennithala while speaking to IANS said, “Chennithala is sidelined in Congress party. He was a permanent invitee of the Congress party nineteen years before and again including him in the same list does not look nice. People like Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Wasnik, and Anand Sharma who raised a revolt in the name of G23 find a place in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee while Chennithala who has always toed the party line is out of the highest decision-making body of the Congress. This is insult to a genuine and natural leader of the Congress party.”
Chennithala was not available for comment. However, his close associates told BPNS that he would level his protest to the AICC leadership against this decision to sideline him in party.
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