Day after verdict, rival camps in Cong lobby for Kerala chief minister chair

Camps led by three senior Congress leaders, VD Satheesan, Ramesh Chennithala, and KC Venugopal, are lobbying among newly elected party legislators to stake their claim for the Kerala chief minister's post. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) won 102 of the state's 140 seats in the assembly polls. The party is likely to send observers to Kerala to take feedback from newly-elected MLAs to decide the legislative party leader, who will effectively become the CM.