Kerala CM face: BJP drops leaked Congress list with 'KC' markings

NEW DELHI: With the Congress-led LDF securing a bulk and connected people to signifier a authorities successful Kerala aft much than a decade, attraction has present shifted to who volition go the state’s adjacent main minister.

Several names person reportedly been discussed, including cardinal Kerala Congress person V D Satheesan and Congress wide caput K C Venugopal. And if a database shared by BJP’s Kerala portion is immoderate indication, the enactment whitethorn person already made its choice.The photograph shows a papers successful the possession of AICC perceiver Mukul Wasnik during the Congress Legislature Party consultations. Shared connected BJP Keralam’s authoritative X account, the database is being interpreted arsenic suggesting that a bulk of legislators enactment Venugopal for the apical post.Sharing the image, BJP Keralam wrote connected X: “The ink connected the ballot isn’t adjacent dry, and the Congress ‘Culture of Greed’ is already choking Keralam. While the authorities waits for governance, Congress ‘leaders’ are engaged waging poster wars, leaking MLA lists, and counting heads for the CM chair.”“A enactment that can’t adjacent prime a CM without a thoroughfare combat volition ne'er beryllium acceptable to pb this state,” the BJP portion added.

Several MLAs, including Sandeep Varier, Sajeev Joseph, T O Mohanan, Sunny Joseph, Usha Vijayan and T Siddique, were marked with the initials “KC” connected the leaked list, which is being interpreted arsenic enactment for Congress wide caput K C Venugopal successful the contention for Kerala main minister.

The initials “KC+RC” were allegedly written against the sanction of I C Balakrishnan, with “RC” seen arsenic a notation to elder Congress person Ramesh Chennithala, different contender for the post.However, Uduma MLA K Neelakandan claimed that the abstraction adjacent to his sanction successful the database had been near blank contempt him conveying his penchant to AICC observers Mukul Wasnik and Ajay Maken.“I saw the photograph. I bash not cognize wherefore my penchant was not recorded.

I person sent an email to AICC leaders Wasnik and Maken successful this respect and lodged my complaint,” Neelakandan told PTI.He further said the omission could make a “wrong impression” among enactment leaders and the nationalist that helium had not expressed his sentiment during the consultation process. “I spoke to the Leader of Opposition successful the Kerala Assembly this greeting and helium was convinced astir it,” helium added, portion declining to disclose whom helium had supported for the post.At present, V D Satheesan, Venugopal and Chennithala are being considered the main contenders for the main minister’s post. The Congress has 63 MLAs successful the Assembly, portion the UDF secured 102 seats successful the 140-member House.