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Karunakaran for organisational elections

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 8. The veteran Congress leader, K. Karunakaran, today called for reorganisation of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) through elections.

Talking to reporters here, he said organisational elections would ensure that people did not get elevated to offices of authority within the party set-up because of group politics.

While advocating organisational elections to end the ongoing system of allocating party positions and tickets on the basis of factions, the octogenarian Congressman said group politics would never end in Kerala. About last week's fracas outside the meeting of the KPCC executive, he said: "This is not the first time there has been trouble at a KPCC meeting.'' Asked whether the Congress had fared so poorly in the Lok Sabha elections in the State because the workers had felt alienated, Mr. Karunakaran said organisational elections would bring a sense of involvement that was crucial for the party today.

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