AB Sabu quits Congress, associates with CPM

KOCHI: A B Sabu, a former member of KPCC and a former chairman of the standing committee of Kochi Corporation, quit the party and has decided to associate with the CPM on Saturday.
Speaking at a news conference in Kochi on Saturday, Sabu said he resigned from Congress due to the conviction that he can’t continue to serve the public as a party leader.
Those close to Sabu said that he was having a strained relationship with Congress leadership after the party denied him a ticket to contest from Tripunithura in the recent assembly elections. But Sabu denied it during the news conference.
Sabu had been a prominent runner for mayor’s post when the UDF came to power in Kochi Corporation in 2010. As the rival groups in the party objected to electing Sabu as the mayor, Tony Chammany became the mayor then.