THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The KPCC executive committee that met here on Wednesday to analyse the Assembly election results virtually turned into a scene of attack against the party leadership in the state.It was a blame game against the leadership for the party’s dismal show in the elections. From the candidate selection to the KPCC president entering the poll fray, many leaders tried to settle scores with the party leadership.V D Satheesan, who was denied a Cabinet berth, unleashed a scathing attack on the party leadership and also criticised the statements made by KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala. He said the KPCC president’s decision to contest had created confusion in the party circles.Poor candidate selection and allegations against some of the UDF leaders also proved costly in the elections, he added.Babu Prasad, who gave up his home constituency of Haripad for Ramesh Chennithala to contest this time, spoke in favour of the KPCC president and said the reason behind Satheesan’s outburst was the denial of Cabinet berth to him.Several others, including V M Sudheeran and P T Thomas, criticised the poor candidate selection. Sudheeran said the party’s performance would have been even pathetic if A K Antony had not led the election campaign for the Congress.Ramesh Chennithala said the candidate selection was not made according to either his or Oommen Chandy’s interests. He said the community card was played against him and there was an attempt to brand him as a ‘Nair’ candidate. However, he said this attempt was not from within the party.The KPCC president cautioned the leaders against speaking in public and said the leadership would be compelled to take action if anyone violated this.He said the KPCC has realised the fact that the election results were not impressive as expected and hence it has decided to find the reasons behind it for which a three-member committee has been formed. The committee headed by Vakkom Purushothaman will have A C Jose and V S Vijayaraghavan as members.
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