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Tamil Nadu
By Radha Venkatesan
All key faction leaders have been nominated to the 21-member executive committee, which nominates trustees to the Tamil Nadu Congress Charitable Trust, which controls prime property worth over Rs. 100 crores in Chennai. The former Tamil Maanila Congress president, G.K. Vasan, who was appointed AICC secretary in charge of Bihar and a few other States; the TNCC president, S. Balakrishnan; the working president, E.V.K.S. Elangovan; the MP, Mani Shankar Aiyer; the former Union Ministers, S.R. Balasubramaniam, Jayanthi Natarajan, M. Arunachalam and R. Prabhu; the former TNCC chiefs, K.V. Thangabalu, Kumari Ananthan and Tindivanam Ramamurthy, and G.R. Moopanar, brother of the late G. K. Moopanar, have found their way into the key executive. But the high command has deftly ensured that the "original" Congressmen, especially MLAs, who shot off a letter to the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, complaining about the TMC camp walking away with all key posts do not feel let down. Hence, only 30-50 per cent of the State and district level organisational posts have been given to the erstwhile TMC men. Especially in the posts of district president, only 22 of the 54 former TMC men have been accommodated. The Congress floor leader in the Chennai Corporation and Vasan acolyte, Mano, has been appointed North Chennai district president, while the other two district leader assignments in the city have gone to the Elangovan camp. However, the key functionaries of the erstwhile TMC have been appeased with posts of vice-president, general secretary and secretary or organising secretary. Mr. Vasan has wrested significant posts for his camp followers. For instance, D. Sudarsanam, MLA, who controlled the TMC coffers, continues as TNCC treasurer. And, the senior TMC functionaries, Peter Alphonse, K.S. Alagiri, Tamizharuvi Manian and A. Gopanna, have all been nominated as general secretaries. But they will be just one among the 22 TNCC general secretaries. Mr. Alphonse has also been given additional responsibility as spokesman, along with T.S. Killivanan, a former acolyte of the late Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy. However, in a last-minute decision, J.M. Haroon was struck off the list of general secretaries. Apart from the 22 general secretaries, the TNCC will have 18 vice-presidents, 36 secretaries and an equal number of organising secretaries, a 25-member political affairs committee and a 10-member disciplinary action committee headed by Mr. Kumari Ananthan. The MPs, Sudarsanam Nachiappan and B.S. Gnanadesikan; the MLA, V.K. Lakshmanan, and the former MPs, Adaikala Raj, Kaliya Perumal and Jaya Mohan, have been accommodated as vice-presidents and the former Union Minister and TMC functionary, Danushkodi Adityan, the MLA, S.G. Vinayagamurthy, and the former AIADMK Minister, Durai Ramasamy, who recently joined the Congress, figure on the political affairs committee. The former Janata Dal leader, G.A. Vadivelu, who merged his outfit with the Congress, too has been nominated to this committee. Now that the long list of office-bearers has been released after a long-drawn haggling by all faction leaders in Delhi, the high command hopes to end infighting in the State Congress. But, some leaders feel, the unwieldy team itself would spell fresh factional trouble.
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