PCC chiefs status quo in other states?
Speculation is rife on whether the Congress high command will maintain a status quo in the appointments of the rest of the PCC chiefs in the key states, including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashra, Tamil Nadu, MP and Gujarat.
A second list of the PCC presidents is expected after November 2, highly placed sources indicated. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has nominated 11 PCC chiefs and approved the results of seven states Congress presidents in the Northeast states on October 26.
Barring Karnataka, Punjab and Nagaland, the PCC chiefs in the election-going West Bengal, Assam and Kerala got a second term. She has also maintained the status quo in the Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Puducherry, Chandigarh Congress units.
This has made incumbents in other states optimistic of getting a another term. If insiders are to be believed, the high command is planning to send a Union minister to Maharashtra as PCC chief who could succeed chief minister Ashok Chavan in the due course. But if incumbent Mr Manikrao Thakre continues then it could be seen as a victory of the chief minister.
AICC officials are tightliiped whether the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief Krip Shankar Singh will get a second term ahead of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation elections. In AP, the current mood is to continue Mr D. Srinivas for “some time”. In Gujarat a search is on for a new PCC chief after Mr Siddharth Patel resigned on moral grounds following the party’s defeat in the local body elections.
It will be interesting to see whether Tamil Nadu PCC chief K.V. Thangkabalu would be renominated ahead of the state Assembly polls. “If the high command has not changed PCCs chiefs in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry why would it change Thangkabalu/” they asked. But in Rajasthan, PCC president C.P. Joshi is said to be not interested in getting a second term being the Union minister. The Congress leadership has to formulate a strategy for nominating PCC chiefs in the BJP-ruled states, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, they viewed.
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