Sonia calls Chandy, Chennithala after Satheesan appointed LoP
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Sonia Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 : Hours after the AICC came out with the decision to appoint V.D. Satheesan as the new Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday called up senior leader Oommen Chandy and outgoing leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, to pacify them.
Incidentally, the AICC delegation led by Upper House Leader of Opposition Malikarjuna Kharghae and former Puducherry Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam arrived in the state capital and had a one-on-one talk with all the 21 legislators and in it Chennithala had got the support of the maximum legislators, even though the other contestants who expressed their desire was Satheesan, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan and P.T. Thomas.