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Church recommends LS candidate for Ernakulam

IANSFirst Published : 14 Mar 2009 05:45:19 PM ISTLast Updated : 14 Mar 2009 05:50:25 PM ISTKOCHI: The powerful Latin Catholic Church in Kerala has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi urging the party to consider Hybi Eden, chief of the Congress' student wing, as party candidate for the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat.


The letter was written by the Varapuzha Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil, who is also president of the Kerala Regional Latin Catholic Council, the body that looks after the social and other activities of the church.

The church has given three other names. The list does not contain the names of sitting Ernakulam Congress legislator and former minister K.V. Thomas or former Congress legislator and former minister Dominic Presentation.

Eden, who was recently appointed chief of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), and the two other Congress leaders belong to the Latin Church.

Eden is the son of former Congress MP from Kochi, late George Eden. When the process began for selecting Congress candidates, Eden's was the only name put up for Kochi.

Thomas, who is said to be close to Sonia Gandhi, is believed to have made an attempt to become the candidate after it was announced that Sindhu Joy, a student leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), would be that party's candidate.

Former Congress chief minister K. Karunakaran has said that Eden is the best choice.

Karunakaran's has been displeased with Thomas after the latter quit his camp in 2003 when Karunakaran decided to split the Congress party in Kerala.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

It seems that discussion here is going nowhere. Each one is posting their own agenda.

This thread started with posting of Zaki's interview by NDTV.

I would appreciate if reply is on the subject or else a new thread should be started.

I believe that Vandematram is little obsessed about Indian identity in years to come and copies articles published in newspapers in India.

Now every one of us know that India is going to be in deep trouble and that is why we are in Canada. What is the point he is trying to make? Cry over split milk?

A so called democracy where basic human right of "Equality" is not respected, where there is no fundamental right to own property is not guaranteed, where education to higher learning is denied based on caste, where judiciary indulges in scam and delivers judgement after 15 years, has no future.

Let us stop discussion and put end to this thread

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But never forget in Pakistan (as bad as it is ) they haven't butchered their minorities - unlike India - sikhs, muslims and more recently Christians with govt and administration hand in glove.

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But never forget in Pakistan (as bad as it is ) they haven't butchered their minorities - unlike India - sikhs, muslims and more recently Christians with govt and administration hand in glove.

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