Rahul Gandhi engages agency to monitor TNCC goings-on

“Representatives of the private agency have, of late, been taking feedback directly from area to state-level functionaries, mostly on the route charted by their incumbent captain Su Thirunavukkarasar. Amusingly, the TNCC functionaries did not catch whiff of Rahul engaging a professional watchdog to check on their affairs till they made leader specific enquiries and dropped big names stationed in New Delhi.

“The caller introduced himself as a representative of AICC calling from Delhi. He spoke in Tamil, but the dialect sounded Bangalorean. Initially, I took it for a prank call but later I realised the gravity of the situation when the caller asked individual specific queries. Finally, the caller asked me to rate the performance of the TNCC president,” said one of the party district presidents who had experienced the telephonic review requesting anonymity. 

Another respondent TNCC functionary said, “This is the first time a private agency is making such enquiries.” Incidentally, the private agency was not the only factor that caught the state leaders off guard. 

AICC was learnt to have ‘deputed’ a person from Ernakulam to the TNCC trust here to monitor the ‘transactions’, more so after it had allegedly noticed some ‘aberrations’ in the last few years. “Now, no bill gets cleared in the state Congress trust without the consent of the person from Ernakulam,” said a state Congress senior requesting anonymity. However, repeated attempts to reach Thirunavukkarasar, who is camping in New Delhi now, proved futile. 

Commenting on the development, former TNCC president EVKS Elangovan said, “I too heard of it. I wish at least these people present the truth to AICC, which does not know what the ground reality is. AICC believes in what a few people in New Delhi, who hardly visit Tamil Nadu or reach out to the cadre here.”