Overview
- Congress leaders and workers held commemorative events across Kerala on Saturday, including prayers at Puthuppally, tributes at St. George Orthodox Church and programmes at KPCC and DCC offices.
- AICC general secretary K. C. Venugopal publicly renewed a demand that the Kerala government name the Vizhinjam International Seaport after Oommen Chandy and urged the state to take immediate steps to do so.
- Speakers highlighted Chandy’s mass contact programmes, opening of the Secretariat to the public and institutionalising post‑Cabinet briefings as the governance practices the party wants to enshrine in policy.
- Party officials reported preliminary work on a health‑insurance guarantee bearing Chandy’s name, and Venugopal urged KSU and other cadres to raise grievances through internal forums rather than in public.
- Chandy’s son, Puthuppally MLA Chandy Oommen, appealed for the day to be free of controversies as the party used the anniversary to balance memorial demands with messages aimed at preserving organisational unity.