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Thiruvananthapuram: Observers of the Congress High Command will reach Kerala to evaluate the poll debacle and the team will visit Kerala after May 20. The leaders will meet the MLAs individually one by one to appoint the next opposition leader of the party. After this, the team will decide if Ramesh Chennithala has to continue or not as opposition leader.
The collective opinion of the party leaders is to go for a massive revamp in the party and the parliamentary party. The party has reached a consensus that the revamp will have to be done from booth-level committees. But a revamp at the top rung of the party is not ruled out.
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MR. T.N. Singh has at last done it, or rather the U.P. Assembly has done it for him. If only he had resigned immediately after his defeat in the Maniram by-election, he would have won a few tears at least for that act. But from the way he clung to the office, all the time protesting that he didn’t want it, the final parting scene provokes relief. U.P. politics always had its murky aspects but the SVD story from beginning to end was the most dismal. The bell tolled for it at Maniram, but the parties of the SVD couldn’t get the message. The coup de grace was given by the electorate in the mid-term poll to the Lok Sabha, and after that, the burial of the coalition cabinet was a mere formality which has now taken place with the help of defectors. Whatever the motives of those who crossed the floor bringing about the downfall of the T.N. Singh Ministry, it does not behove the SVD partners to talk of it. By democratic standards, their forcing the hapless Mr. T.N. Singh to remain
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Congress leader Lathika Subhash gets her head tonsured after being denied the party ticket for Assembly elections. (Photo/ ANI)
Kerala polls: Mahila Cong chief who got head tonsured after party denied ticket, to fight as independent candidate ANI | Updated: Mar 15, 2021 23:50 IST
Kottayam (Kerala) [India], March 15 (ANI): A day after former Congress leader Lathika Subhash got her head tonsured at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) headquarters when she was denied a ticket for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections and resigned from the party, Subhash announced that she will contest the polls from Ettumanoor constituency as an independent candidate.
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Congress leader Lathika Subhash gets her head tonsured after being denied the party ticket for Assembly elections. (Photo/ ANI)
Denied ticket, Kerala Mahila Congress chief Lathika Subhash announces resignation, gets head tonsured in protest ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 19:26 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], March 14 (ANI): Congress leader Lathika Subhash on Sunday got her head tonsured at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) headquarters here after being denied a ticket for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections.
She also announced her resignation from the post of Mahila Congress president as a protest against the Congress ignoring women candidates in the Assembly polls.