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High command should take action: Murali

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE Oct.16. The KPCC president, K. Muraleedharan, today said that the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony was unlikely to change his style of functioning, and, hence, the only way to settle the stalemate among the warring Congress factions in Kerala was for the high command to take appropriate action.

Mr. Muraleedharan was replying to queries by mediapersons on the prolonged impasse, and the demand being made for a change in leadership, after inaugurating a medicinal plant nursery at the Malabar Botanical Garden here.

Regarding the show of strength at a meeting of the anti-Karunakaran faction in Kozhikode, believed to be a bastion of the `I' group, and the KPCC president being targeted for criticism, Mr. Muraleedharan said such exercises revealed the poverty of options at their command. He opined that "fake Gandhians and Nehrus posed a threat to the peace process in Marad".

"The Marad issue had not been discussed by the UDF Liaison Committee or the KPCC, he said. Any agreement arrived at was by the Chief Minister with the BJP leaders," he alleged. Mr. Muraleedharan said compensation should to be paid to those affected in the violence at Marad in 2002.

"Delaying the rehabilitation of the relatives of the accused amounted to meting out punishment to them. Such a stance was being taken by a party that had initiated steps to rehabilitate the assassins of Indira Gandhi," he alleged.

Mr. Muraleedharan stuck to his view that a CBI probe on the Marad issue was irrelevant. "If it was relevant, why did the Government have to delay such a probe unduly," he queried.

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