We will be with LDF till thrown out: Muraleedharan
Nov 28, 2006 - 10:35:29 PM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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Just six months ago, Muraleedharan and Karunakaran had approached the Thiruvambady electorate soliciting votes for the UDF.
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By RxPG News Service,
[RxPG] Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 28 - The new president of Kerala's Nationalist Congress Party - K. Muraleedharan Tuesday said they would be with the ruling Left Democratic Front - unless ousted.
Muraleedharan, the son of dissident Congress leader K. Karunakaran who broke away to form the Democratic Indira Congress-Karunakaran -, admitted that they did not have any role in the Communist Party of India Marxist - led LDF.
'At the moment, even though our party is technically part of the LDF, we don't have any role in the LDF. You wait and see, we won't do anything, through word or deed, that will harm the LDF.'
He told reporters that they would speak out only after the Thiruvambady assembly by-election was over on Dec 4.
The DIC-K merged with the NCP, which is part of the LDF, earlier this month. But the equation has been awkward with the LDF indicating that it would not share a platform with the new 'Karunakaran NCP' in the by-poll.
'Even though the six months of V.S. Achuthanandan's rule falls far below expectations, we feel a LDF candidate must win as they have four-and-a-half years more to go. So my party has been campaigning for the victory of the LDF candidate,' said Muraleedharan.
Without naming LDF allies Communist Party of India and Revolutionary Socialist Party, who have been dead against the father-son duo, Muraleedharan said: 'The need of the hour for some parties is to strengthen the LDF but it is not happening. Wait till Dec 4 for the election to be over.
'Whatever be our current status, at no cost should the opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front look to us for support in the election.'
Just six months ago, Muraleedharan and Karunakaran had approached the Thiruvambady electorate soliciting votes for the UDF.
Muraleedharan said in his defence that a change in political opinion was not new: 'Can you name any political party which has had just one opinion all throughout.'
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