Most of the workers with the official NCP(SP) faction, say leaders

NCP (SP) national working president PC Chacko and state president PM Suresh Babu were felicitated by party workers during the party’s state executive meeting in Kochi on Wednesday. | Photo credit: RK Nithin

Majority of party workers continue to remain with the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP(SP)) Kerala unit despite a split in the organisation, Prime Minister Suresh Babu, who took over as state president, said here on Wednesday.

Mr. Babu, who replaced former NCP (SP) state president Thomas K. Thomas, rejected claims by a rival faction that they had left the party because Mr. Pawar had allegedly sided with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. “It is a baseless allegation as Supriya Sule, working president of NCP (SP), attended the INDIA block meeting held in New Delhi on Monday,” he said.

He said Mr Pawar stood firmly behind the INDIA bloc, arguing that the rival faction led by former minister AK Saseendran and Mr Thomas had no concrete reason to sever ties with the central leadership. He said that the Kerala unit of the party will stand firmly behind the Left Front in Kerala. Attempts, if any, to bring a rival faction into the fold will be seen as unethical practices where leaders sought to form parties to advance their own interests, he argued.

PC Chacko, the national working president of the party, who inaugurated the state leadership meeting, said in a statement that around 1,300 delegates attended the meeting, claiming that most of the workers stood with the central leadership.

Published – 10 Jun 2026 21:36 IST