Pillai airing sentiments of party workers

KOLLAM: Playing down the reports on feud within the Kerala Congress (B) following the standoff between chairman R Balakrishna Pillai and his son and Minister K B Ganesh Kumar as baseless, state committee member Thadathivila Radhakrishnan said that the chairman was just airing the sentiments of party workers.Speaking to mediapersons here on Monday, he said that none of the party representatives who attended the previous state committee meeting held in Thiruvananthapuram spoke in support of Ganesh Kumar, the lone Cabinet nominee of the party.Flanked by constituency committee presidents and other party colleagues, Radhakrishnan said that the minister who says that his senior party colleagues are corrupt, should openly state on what grounds these allegations were made.“If not, he has to tender a public apology to the party workers,” he said. Noting that party workers were deeply upset with the minister, he said that Ganesh Kumar had not been attending the state and district committee meetings of the party for some time now.