K. Sudhakaran to continue as Congress party chief in Kerala; focus on 2026 polls. Meeting was held at Indira Bhawan, the Congress’s new headquarters in New Delhi. Meeting ended with the high command instructing the state unit to prepare a road map for the upcoming local body polls and the 2026 Assembly elections. The internal rift was triggered after the proposed leadership change and an interview given by Shashi Tharoor in which he praised PM Modi’s US visit and governance of the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The media misquoted my interview. We will work for the party and try to win the next year’s Assembly elections,” Tharoo said after the meeting. Meanwhile, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi said that he has got reports from the grassroots in Kerala. The meeting will go down as the best ever that the party has had with all the top Kerala party leaders, said K. Venugopal.
