Kochi | Congress MP Benny Behanan on Wednesday said that everyone, including him, was waiting to know who would be the next Kerala CM, and queries regarding it from party workers should be seen as mere questions and not protests.

He made the statement while referring to an incident a day ago where some party workers had asked him about the chief minister selection issue at a wedding venue.

The Congress MP claimed that he was not stopped or obstructed by the party workers and it was only a friendly conversation that was misrepresented as some kind of protest.

Behanan told a TV channel here that people and party workers will "obviously" want to know about the Congress decision regarding who would be the chief minister of Kerala.

"Not just them, even I am waiting to know who it will be. So, party workers will ask. But those questions are not a protest or an obstruction. Terming it as a protest or me being obstructed or stopped is the act of people with vested interests."

The Congress MP claimed that it was a friendly conversation and that he was not stopped by the party activists when he was leaving from the wedding venue at Perumbavoor here, following the circulation of a video of him being questioned by some youths about who would be the CM.

"As I was leaving the venue, some party workers I know came up to me and asked what happened regarding the CM selection. I told them that the Congress high command has to take a decision and to wait till then. It was a friendly conversation.

"However, someone sent it to the media saying that I was stopped by party activists," Behanan claimed.

The three main contenders for the post of chief minister are senior leaders Ramesh Chennithala, V D Satheesan and AICC general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal.