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Fourth group targets Murali

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM June 10. The fourth group in the KPCC headed by the AICC general secretary, Vayalar Ravi, MP, has de facto called for a change in the KPCC leadership in the larger interests of the party in the State during the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.

In a petition submitted today to the AICC general secretary in charge of Kerala, Ahmed Patel, the fourth group leaders called for "strong disciplinary action against those leaders who violated party discipline'' during the Rajya Sabha election.

The petition requests the high command to ensure that the activities of the KPCC are strictly kept under the control and supervision of the high command "since the party is passing through one of its worst-ever crisis".

The signatories to the petition are the KPCC general secretary, Ajay Tharayil, the Kannur DCC president, Sunny Joseph, the KPCC joint secretaries, T.G. Vishwanathan and A. Vishalakshi, the KPCC executive committee members, Bharatheepuram Sasi, C. Mohanachandran, A. Balaram and Abdul Ghafoor Haji.

The petition is, by and large, a pejorative expression against the KPCC president, K. Muraleedharan. "The KPCC president who consciously cultivated the image of an impartial leader is now making all efforts to realise the wishes and dreams of his father to weaken and malign the A. K. Antony Government," the petition alleges.

"It is a pity to note that the KPCC president who is expected to function as an impartial leader has reduced himself to the level of the leader of a particular group. He has made a mockery of himself. After issuing a whip to the party MLAs to vote for the official candidates in the Rajya Sabha election, Mr. Murleedharan canvassed for the rebel candidate," the petition points out.

"The negative impact on the party on account of such a deception on the part of the KPCC president, who went to the extent of suspending ordinary party workers on grounds of violating party discipline during the election to the local bodies and cooperative societies, can only be imagined," the petition says.

The apathetic attitude on the part of the party high command to such party leaders who are engaged in gross indiscipline had sent the wrong message to ordinary party workers. If this is one side of the picture, on the other side, the KPCC president and the `A'-group leaders are joining hands to sideline all other factions of the party in matters of political appointments and to the posts of chairmen and members in a number of public sector undertakings, apex bodies and cooperative societies.

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