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Kerala Cong feud: Action on dissidence likely to be delayed
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: An imminent crisis in Congress here seems to have been averted by the high command`s decision to set up a high level panel to probe the dissident activity by the Karunakaran camp during the run-up to crucial Lok Sabha by-poll from Ernakulam, instead of summary action against the rebels.
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: An imminent crisis in Congress here seems to have been averted by the high command's decision to set up a high level panel to probe the dissident
activity by the Karunakaran camp during the run-up to crucial Lok Sabha by-poll from Ernakulam, instead of summary action against the rebels.
Constitution of the three-member panel headed by L P Sahi
to look into the banner of revolt raised by the "I" faction is
seen by political observers as a last-ditch effort to bring
about truce in the party, which came perilously close to a
split.
While the hard-liners in the anti-Karunakaran camp wanted the dissidence to be crushed once and for all, moderates preferred a blow-hot-blow-cold approach in dealing with the veteran leader who had openly positioned himself against the party candidate M O John on the ground that the Ernakulam seat had been snatched away from his faction with the rivals colluding with the central leadership.
Sahi had indicated the panel would be getting down to the job in the first week of October, which meant that the outcome in Ernakulam, where counting is to be taken up on September 29, would also be taken into account.
Karunakaran, who unleashed a rather personalised offensive against Chief Minister A K Antony on the eve of the poll, had hinted that on his own he would not go out of the party. However, he had said he would fight back any effort to "wipe off" the "I" faction.
Bureau Report
While the hard-liners in the anti-Karunakaran camp wanted the dissidence to be crushed once and for all, moderates preferred a blow-hot-blow-cold approach in dealing with the veteran leader who had openly positioned himself against the party candidate M O John on the ground that the Ernakulam seat had been snatched away from his faction with the rivals colluding with the central leadership.
Sahi had indicated the panel would be getting down to the job in the first week of October, which meant that the outcome in Ernakulam, where counting is to be taken up on September 29, would also be taken into account.
Karunakaran, who unleashed a rather personalised offensive against Chief Minister A K Antony on the eve of the poll, had hinted that on his own he would not go out of the party. However, he had said he would fight back any effort to "wipe off" the "I" faction.
Bureau Report