K Sudhakaran made Kerala Congress president

In further revamp of the Congress leadership in Kerala, Lok Sabha MP K Sudhakaran has been made the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president replacing Mullappally Ramachandran.

The decision that came close on the heels of replacing senior leader Ramesh Chennithala with V D Satheesan as the Leader of Opposition is also considered as a strong message by the Congress national leadership against groupism in Congress in Kerala as both Sudhakaran and Satheesan were not part of the Ramesh Chennithala and Oommen Chandy groups in the Congress in Kerala.

Congress high command took the decision to make Sudhakaran Kerala PCC president based on a report given by AICC general secretary Tariq Anwar. The national decision was learnt to have gone by the majority opinion in the party.

Sudhakaran, who has been serving as Kerala PCC vice president since 2018, had openly expressed his desire to become Kerala PCC president just ahead of the Assembly elections. Lok Sabha MP and Kerala PCC working president Kodikunnil Suresh's name was also doing the rounds to the Kerala PCC president post.

While Suresh will continue as working president, P T Thomas MLA and T Siddique MLA were also appointed as working presidents. Former union minister K V Thomas, who was made the Kerala PCC working president earlier this year after he expressed differences with party leadership, was dropped from the post.

Sudhakaran reacted that he was given a challenging responsibility by the national leadership to strengthen the party. He said that he would be able to ensure cooperation of all senior leaders in strengthening the Congress in Kerala.

73-year-old Sudhakaran, who is a native of Kannur, is a firebrand leader. He was a former forest minister in Kerala and is MP for a second term. He was MLA in Kerala for four terms.

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