KPCC to have 13 vice-presidents, 58 normal secretaries

After years of delay, the Congress on Thursday inched nearer to wrapping up its organisational reshuffle in Kerala by increasing its political affairs committee (PAC) apart from appointing 13 vice-presidents and 58 normal secretaries.  

Sources within the occasion mentioned the listing of secretaries would even be introduced in per week or so.  

Lok Sabha MPs Rajmohan Unnithan, V.Okay. Sreekandan, and Dean Kuriakose and Pandalam Sudhakaran, C.P. Mohammed and A.Okay. Mani have been added to the PAC to reinforce its power from the current 32 to 38.  

T. Sarathchandra Prasad, Hibi Eden, MP, Palode Ravi, V.T. Balaram, V.P. Sajeendran, Mathew Kuzhalnadan, MLA, D. Sugathan, Remya Haridas, M. Liju, A.A. Shukkoor, M. Vincent, MLA, Roy Okay. Paulose, and J. Jaison Joseph have been appointed vice- presidents of the occasion.  

The jumbo listing of normal secretaries consists of Sandeep Warrier, who defected to the Congress from the BJP in 2024 and was later appointed occasion spokesperson.  

Palode Ravi, appointed vice-president now, needed to step down as president of the Thiruvananthapuram district congress committee (DCC) in July this yr after a leaked telephone dialog of his had put the occasion in a spot.  

Commenting on the rejig, a senior chief mentioned sure norms have been adopted within the number of KPCC office-bearers. “Members of Parliament, who weren’t a part of the PAC, have now been included. Former DCC presidents and leaders with at the least 10 years of expertise working as secretaries have been given promotions. Many sitting and former MLAs have additionally been included within the new committee. But exemption was given to ladies who’ve excelled in management roles and leaders from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The inclusion of Hibi Eden, Ramya Haridas and BRM Shafeer exhibits that the youth have been given sufficient illustration within the committee,” he mentioned.