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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, MARCH 31. The Congress today rescheduled the organisational elections in the State along with eight other States while conceding to the Karunakaran faction's demand for getting outsiders to serve as District Returning Officers (DROs) in the State. An announcement was made here by the Pradesh Returning officer, M. Krishnaswamy, who expressed confidence that he would be able to conduct an incident-free election in Kerala; the shrill pitch of faction-fighting in the State unit notwithstanding. Today, the party released the schedule up to the primary/booth and block levels. As per the revised schedule, the election of District Congress Committee (DCC) presidents and the DCC Executive would have to be completed between May 5 and May 10. Earlier, this exercise had to be completed by March 14. Briefing the media, Mr. Krishnaswamy said 13 of the 14 DROs assigned to the State were from Tamil Nadu and one was from Andhra Pradesh. Besides, four more persons have been shortlisted from the Tamil Nadu unit of the party as substitutes in case one of the 14 is unable to make it on the designated day. According to Mr. Krishnaswamy, he had not discussed the names of DROs with any of the faction leaders in the Congress in Kerala. Dodging questions on the veteran Congress leader, K. Karunakaran's contention that an election in which some major leaders could not participate owing to suspension cannot be fair, he maintained time and again that the AICC was very particular that organisational elections should be conducted without further delay
`I'group's fresh demand
Our Special Correspondent from Thiruvananthapuram reports: The Karunakaran faction has now come forward with fresh demands. It wants the high command to disband the current KPCC and DCCs, besides withdrawing the suspension of leaders such as K. Muraleedharan and K. P. Kunhikannan. The faction is also demanding a mechanism seeking to restore the self-respect of party leaders given the manner in which the recent disciplinary action had been initiated against leaders belonging to the Karunakaran faction. The faction leaders, including the MLAs, are now looking up to Mr. K. Karunakaran to protect their interests in the upcoming fight for control over the party apparatus. The Congress MLA, M. P. Gangadharan, a prominent member of the Karunakaran group, today gave a brief idea about the current thinking in the faction.
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