Ravi complains to High Command

By Our Special Correspondent

KOCHI, JAN. 7. Mr. Vayalar Ravi, MP, has complained to the Congress (I) High Command that the KPCC(I) was trying to ``accommodate persons of its choice to key positions in the organisation''.

He alleged that instead of taking steps to hold organisational elections at the earliest, the KPCC(I) leadership here was ``apportioning posts'' on ``group basis'' and thus going against the directive of the AICC which wanted activities in connection with renewing party membership to be completed by January-end.

The AICC had been maintaining that the leaders should come up from the rank and file through a proper democratic process but this was more honoured in the breach than the law, Mr. Ravi said in his complaint given to party president, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, in Delhi today.

He said that the KPCC(I) had already formed a sub-committee to discuss the modalities of holding organisational elections but in spite of three meetings, nothing concrete had come out of this five-member sub- committee. Now there are talks about ``distributing'' the DCC(I) presidentships and also those posts in the sister organisations of the party.

The ``groupism'' in the party which was dormant all these months has started resurfacing thanks to the move of the KPCC(I) to set apart posts for particular groups on the basis of the bargaining power and clout of leaders like Mr. K. Karunakaran and Mr. A. K. Antony, Mr. Ravi alleged.

Though it was the Congress(I) Working Committee, in which senior leaders such as Mr. Karunakaran and Mr. Antony are members, which had taken the decision to hold organisational elections, it was a paradox that these leaders themselves were going against the decision of the CWC.

Mr. Ravi had given a detailed background and also a copy of the complaint to Mr. Eduardo Faleiro, AICC general secretary who is holding charge of the party affairs in the State.

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