Not Kummanam or Sivankutty, Murali’s biggest challenge in Nemom is a near-dead Congress machinery

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In the first week of March, soon after the Assembly elections were declared, All India Congress Committee leader and former Tamil Nadu MP P Vishwanathan called a booth-level convention in Nemom constituency.

In Nemom, the party is supposed to have 182 booth presidents; a booth president is the lowest unit in the Congress hierarchy. But in attendance at the convention were just 53 booth presidents. Even among these 53 were, in the words of a local Congress leader, “booth presidents who were taken on rent for a day”.

“Anyone willing to volunteer was quickly declared as a booth president and sent to the convention. The local Congress leaders just wanted to save their faces,” a local Congress worker said.