 Kachali is credited for engineering defections of high-profile opposition leaders to the ruling Peoples Party.Internally though, some Peoples Party founders and their stooges have been working hard to tarnish his image by fermenting lies or putting up independent candidates in the recent bye-elections in his Mzimba South West Constituency and Mzimba Central where they expected the PP to lose and discredit him.The PP won his former constituency with a majority of over 5000 sending his detractors into political wilderness.