‘Miffed group leaders unhappy with Tariq Anwar’

Thiruvananthapuram: An uneasy calm prevailed in the Congress

group camps

on Wednesday as the party high command refused to budge an inch from its efforts to delink the party state unit from the clutches of the established groups and miffed group leaders continued to lament in private over the denial of ‘equal’ justice.

Following strict instructions from the party high command against leaders airing open criticism on

DCC

reorganization, the group leaders and their lieutenants abstained from passing bitter comments openly. However, ‘A’ and ‘I’ groups continued the intra-group communications and shared the opinion that the high command representative

Tariq Anwar

failed to act impartially as he allegedly sided with the new power centre that has emerged under the leadership of

KPCC

president

K Sudhakaran

, opposition leader VD Satheesan and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal.

According to leaders of both ‘A’ and ‘I’ groups, disciplinary action was taken by the party leadership against only select persons. While action was taken against those who openly criticized Sudhakaran and Satheesan, no action was taken against those who openly rubbished Oommen Chandy and Chennithala, they complained.

Former opposition leader

Ramesh Chennithala

–who refused to make a direct comment on questions regarding the simmering resentment over DCC reorganization –told reporters on Wednesday that he had already shared his thoughts with the Congress high command and hence would prefer not to make any more public comment on the issue.

But, Chennithala, while answering to a question, said organizational election would be the best way to settle the issues plaguing the party. “Organizational election is the best way. It’s not mandatory that organizational election should be conducted only as part of an exercise at the national level. It did happen otherwise in the past as well,” he said.

Meanwhile,

UDF

coordination committee is scheduled to meet at Cantonment house, the official residence of the opposition leader on Monday. The bilateral discussion with RSP leaders – who raised apprehensions over the way UDF functioned – would be held at 11:30am that day, said UDF convenor

MM Hassan

.