thiruvananthapuram chief minister oommen chandys consensus formula to postpone the central zone rally as per the request of finance minister k m mani was approved in the udf meeting but with a strong dissent note from kpcc president v m sudheeran even though the kpcc ruled out the postponement of all the zonal rallies which was what the kerala congress mani demanded chandy made the congress leaders accept the request of mani to postpone the central zone rally which his party has to lead chandy had a discussion with home minister ramesh chennithala udf convener p p thankachan and kpcc president v m sudheeran ahead of the udf meet in which it was decided that there was no point in postponing the other three rallies but sudheeran was against rescheduling even the central zone rally later the udf meet accepted the formula of chandy and agreed to postpone the central zone rally however kerala congress jacob chairman johnny nellore who is supposed to be the vicecaptain of this rally voiced his protest and said it should not be postponed due to the personal inconvenience of a leader kottayam ernakulam idukki and pathanamthitta are the districts covered under central zone rally which are considered to be the strongholds of kcm however the congress succeeded in pressurizing the kc m to be part of all the other three zonal rallies which will begin on may 19 the central zone rally will now begin on may 27 there is nothing unusual in postponing a rally at the request of a key partner said udf convener p p thankachan after the meeting kcm representative joy abraham who attended the udf meeting said that his party would support all the udf rallies even though the demand was to postpone all the rallies when asked who would be heading the central zone rally joy abraham said that c f thomas was supposed to lead the rally but he had now withdrawn citing health reasons the new captain for the rally will be decided by k m mani once he is back from abroad said joy abraham the rallies have been planned to highlight the achievements of the udf government and also to counter the allegations levelled against the government but kcm had opposed to this claiming that there was no point in holding them when the vigilance investigation was going on in the bar bribery case the party had demanded to conclude the investigation before going out with rallies however the congress was not ready to concede this demand but mani had threatened to stay away from the central zone rally following which now udf has decided to postpone it