Sudhakaran claims factionalism waning
The Hindu
KPCC reorganisation galvanised rank and file
The emphatic win of the official panel in the election to the director board of the Indira Gandhi Cooperative Hospital in Kannur appears to have organisationally emboldened Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran.
The new team has resoundingly put paid to the reign of Mambaram Divakaran at the hospital's helm for the past 30 years. Mr. Divakaran was widely reckoned as Mr. Sudhakaran's arch-rival and bug bear in the hotbed of Congress politics in Kannur.
In an arguably effusive message that seems targeted more at the Congress rank and file, Mr. Sudhakaran staunchly defends reorganisation amidst stewing opposition from the well-entrenched ‘A’ and ‘I’ factions. The party has triumphed over divisiveness and exclusion. It has dashed the hope of soothsayers who predicted organisational anarchy and ruin.