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KOCHI, MAY 24. The senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha Member, K. Karunakaran's new initiative to revive his group in the Congress is a pressure tactic to force his way into the Union Cabinet, according to T.H. Mustapha, MLA. He said Mr. Karunakaran and his family were responsible for the Congress's ignominious debacle at the elections. Mr. Karunakaran had not learnt a lesson from the blow the voters had given him and he was now keen that the party did not emerge from its current pathetic condition. The `I' group leaders and activists had now realised that Mr. Karunakaran had played the factional politics just to ensure a Rajya Sabha seat for himself, a Ministerial berth for his son and a place in Lok Sabha for his daughter. Hence, `I' group activists would not flock to him as in the past, he said. Mr. Mustapha said the re-emergence of factionalism would further ruin the party. He called for a `Save Congress Movement' and urged Mr. Karunkaran to help the party, if he was sincere enough, `from behind the scene' as leaders such as the late K.P. Madhavan Nair had done. He also said the KPCC acting president, P.P. Thankachan, should partly own up the responsibility for the Congress debacle. If he had any role in today's `group meeting' at Mr. Karunakaran's residence, strong action should be taken against Mr. Thankachan. Mr. Mustapha came down heavily on the Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, and the BJP leader, O. Rajagopal, for criticising the Congress leadership for including the Muslim League MP, E. Ahmed, in the Union Council of Ministers. He said Mr. Ahmed was the only UDF representative in the Lok Sabha and that he represented a party, which had fought for the freedom of the country. He said it was the CPI(M) that had first brought the Muslim League to power - in the Government headed by E.M. Sankaran Namboodiripad way back in 1967.
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