Thiruvananthapuram:   Congress veteran Ramesh Chennithala has quit from the top posts that he was holding in four party backed organisations. Among the posts that he held included those associated with the party backed TV channel, Jaihind TV, Veekshenem Daily, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Development Studies, which is an academic institution, and the K. Karunakaran Foundation. He also expressed disappointment over the primary investigation into the allegations against Life Mission under vigilance.

Chennithala held crucial positions in these organisations as he was the state party president from 2005 to 2014, was the State Home Minister from January 2014 to May 2016, and from 2016 till

After the Congress-led UDF under him suffered a degrading defeat in the April 6 Assembly polls, even though he had the majority support of his party legislators to continue in the Leader of the Opposition post, the party high command intervened and decided to remove Chennithala and appoint V.D. Satheesan in his place. Since then Chennithala has been unhappy and was peeved the way the high command intervened to select the 14 district party presidents.

Incidentally, Chennithala's resignation comes at a time, when the high command is all set to reconstitute the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.

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