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`Karunakaran mobilising supporters'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, MAY 22 . The former KPCC general secretary, Sarat Chandra Prasad, has said the senior Congress leader, K. Karunakaran, is using pressure tactics to mobilise Ministers and party leaders for the group meeting likely to be held in Thiruvananthapuram on May 24.

Addressing presspersons here this evening, he said that Mr. Karunakaran was using his confidantes to threaten leaders in order to make them attend the group meeting, the first one after the Lok Sabha elections. "Many leaders, including Ministers, had made it clear that they will not act against the interests of the party and the Union Government. It is sad that pressure tactics and the threat of losing posts are being adopted to make them attend the meeting," he said.

By convening the meeting, Mr. Karunakaran was going against the statement he had made at Kodungaloor that henceforth, there would not be many groups within the party, he said.

Mr. Prasad said that people expected at least one Minister from Kerala in the Union Cabinet. There were many capable senior leaders who could be considered, he said.

He lamented that Mr. Karunakaran had began issuing statements saying that the defeat of his children, K. Muraleedharan and Padmaja Venugopal, in the election was part of the wave against Congress candidates. "The leader should not degrade himself. Most of the UDF candidates failed because the two were in fray. The mandate was against nepotism and family rule," he said.

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