THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Subsequent on Congress releasing its list of 86 candidates for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections, senior party leader and MP K. Sudhakaran on Tuesday expressed his strong displeasure over the list, saying that he has lost both "hope" and "confidence". Sudhakaran is at present one of the few working president's of the party's Kerala unit.

Sudhakaran alleged that the AICC General Secretary has played truant and sneaked in candidates in the name of having party's high command support. "I feel that the party's high command has been misled by the state leaders. Those who are responsible include Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala and AICC General Secretary K.C.Venugopal," said Sudhakaran, the Lok Sabha Member from Kannur.

"Never before such a thing has happened, when the local leadership and the district committee was not taken into confidence while naming the candidates. No opinion was sought from us," added the Congress MP.

In the 140-member Kerala Assembly, the Congress which spearheads the United Democratic Front (UDF) is contesting 92 seats, leaving the rest to its allies.

On Monday, the president of the Women's wing of the Congress party in Kerala- Lathika Subhash, resigned from all the posts in the party and announced her decision to contest as an independent candidate from the Ettumanoor constituency in her home district at Kottayam.

Meanwhile, Sudhakaran said he is yet to think if he needs to contest against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan from the Dharmadom constituency in Kannur. The Congress party is yet to announce its candidate in Dharmadom and is likely to take place in a day

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