Competing factions in the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), purportedly vying for organisational sway ahead of inner-party elections, endeavoured to hammer out the composition of the party’s district and block committees through a seemingly protracted process of mutual accommodation.
Wrangling between traditional and emergent factions in the KPCC over the preselection of office-bearers had constrained the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to hold back the vaunted restructuring of the party in Kerala.
