Mandya, Apr 11 : Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), taking strong objection to party leaders indulging in anti-party activities and not campaigning for Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the Lok Sabha election has suspended its seven Block Presidents.
The suspension was based on complaints received from JDS-Congress leaders against them.
A section of Congress workers are supporting Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh and even some of them participated in the campaign by holding Congress flags.
The suspended Block Presidents included H Appaji, Mandya Rural, A S Rajeev, Bharati Nagar, Putraramu, Malavalli Rural, K J Devaraju, Malavalli City, M Prasanna, Nagamangala, K R Ravindra Babu, K R Pet and S B Prakash, Melkote. .
The suspension came after repeated warnings from the Congress leadership. The party is particularly irked with the dissidence because Sumalatha has found support from the BJP, Congress is worried that if its party workers do not cooperate with the JD(S) in Mandya, the regional party’s cadre could return the favour in the Mysore Lok Sabha constituency, which the Congress is desperate to wrest from the BJP.
The suspension comes ahead of AICC President Rahul Gandhi’s campaign scheduled to be held at Krishnarajanagara of the Mandya Lok Sabha segment on April 13. JD(S) supremo H D Devegowda and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah are slated to hold a joint campaign there on April 12.
