The Congress leadership in the State will assemble at Ottappalam, near here, on Sunday to celebrate the 96th anniversary of the first KPCC meet on the banks of the Bharathapuzha. The meet, in 1921, laid the foundation for the demand for a separate State based on language.
Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala will inaugurate a remembrance conference at Manissery in the town in the presence of KPCC office-bearers and leaders from across the State. KPCC president M.M. Hassan will preside. Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, former KPCC presidents V.M. Sudheeran and K. Muraleedharan, INTUC leader R. Chandrasekharan, All India Congress Committee secretary Deepak Babria and K.C. Venugopal, MP, will inaugurate various sessions.
Meet’s intention
DCC president V.K. Sreekandan said the three-day meet was organised in a way to revitalise the party unit in the State to fight the ‘anti-people policies’ of the BJP-led government at the Centre and the Left government in the State. The first meet of the KPCC was held in the presence of the then AICC president T. Prakasam. It had adopted a resolution to create a united Kerala by integrating the princely States of Travancore and Cochin with the then British Malabar.
It was following a resolution adopted by the Nagpur session of the AICC in 1920 on the need to constitute provincial Congress committees on linguistic lines that the decision to conduct the first KPCC meet was taken.
