K Mahendran hits out at Karti Chidambaram over Tamil Nadu Congress rejig

In another show of internal strife within the Congress, the party’s Tamil Nadu leader K Mahendran on Sunday hit out at his colleague Karti Chidambaram, suggesting he became an MP only because of his father and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s influence.

The controversy sparked off after Karti Chidambaram criticised the Congress’ move of a major rejig in the state unit of the party. On Sunday, the Congress named 32 vice presidents, 57 general secretaries and 104 secretaries in the party’s Tamil Nadu state committee, according to The News Minute.

Reacting to this decision, Karti Chidambaram said that such big committees were unlikely to yield positive results. “These jumbo committees serve no purpose,” he tweeted. “32 VP, 57 GS, 104 Secretaries. None will have any authority which means no accountability.”