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No one can take Cong. into CPI(M) fold: Chandy

By Our Staff Reporter

KANNUR OCT. 18. The UDF convener, Oommen Chandy, has said that the `efforts' of a section in the Congress to take the party to the CPI(M) camp will be defeated by party workers in the State.

``As the first round of district-level conventions of party workers to strengthen the party are being completed, no party leader, however senior he is, can push the party into the CPI(M) camp. From our own experiences in the past, we know that no party worker can think of being in alliance with the CPI(M),'' Mr. Chandy said while addressing a Meet-the-Press organised by the Press Club here today.

He, however, said that the designs of a section of party leadership to forge an alliance with the CPI(M) by breaking away from the party had created a special situation in the party. ``We have been abstaining from reacting to the issues raised by this section ever since A.K. Antony became the Chief Minister because we did not want to create any situation that will scuttle the people's high expectations about the UDF Government,'' the senior Congress leader said.

Mr. Chandy said the ongoing campaigns were aimed at strengthening the party in the face of the moves to break the party. Stating that he could not expect the KPCC president, K. Muraleedharan, to become neutral, Mr. Chandy said that the KPCC chief's report on the Ernakulam by-election exemplified his one-sided approach. Mr. Muraleedharan's justification of a Congress alliance with the CPI(M) in the State on the basis of national level co-operation between the Congress and other secular parties, including the CPI(M) to fight the BJP was `baseless', he said.

``Here the CPI(M) was making three conditions for such an alliance. The conditions are abandoning of Congress's economic policies, repudiation of the party's long-standing partner, the Indian Union Muslim League and the breaking up of the party,'' he said. The Congress workers could not accept any of these conditions, he said.

Mr. Chandy said the CPI(M) move to unseat the Antony Government and put up an alternative Government would turn out to be a dream. Asked why the Government was apparently reluctant to convene a special Assembly session to discuss the notice issued by the Opposition against the Speaker, Vakkom Purushothaman, Mr. Chandy said the Government could not skip certain prescribed rules concerning the matter.

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