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KOCHI: Protesting against the "autocratic" style of functioning of the Chief Minster, Oommen Chandy, the Kerala Congress (Jacob) today quit the United Democratic Front (UDF). The KC(J) is the second constituent to end the decades-long political affiliation with the UDF after the Kerala Congress faction led by R. Balakrishna Pillai. The party led by the former Water Resources Minister T. M. Jacob took the decision after a high-power committee meeting held in Kochi on Thursday. Mr. Jacob told mediapersons that the party had not yet finalised its future political line. The question of having alliance with the Left Democratic Front and the stand to be taken in the coming Assembly byelections would be decided later. Mr. Jacob said all the founding political parties and leaders of the UDF, including K. Karunakaran, had now been forced out of the UDF. In these circumstances, the party would prove that the present UDF was not the real one. The KC(J) would also establish that the Front in which the party would be a member would be the real UDF, he said. Mr. Chandy was instrumental in ensuring the defeat of the UDF candidates in the last Parliament election. He wanted to prove that the former Chief Minister A. K. Antony was a failure as a leader and the Front would not succeed under his stewardship, Mr. Jacob alleged. The relation between Mr. Jacob and Mr. Chandy had soured following the non-inclusion of the former in the Government. Levelling allegations against Mr. Chandy, Mr. Jacob said the impact of the wrong and dictatorial policies pursued by Mr. Chandy would be reflected in the next civic body and Assembly polls. The Front was likely to get a severe drubbing at the hustings. He said Mr. Chandy's aim was not to let any Congress Governments come to power in future. He also wanted to go into the annals of history as the last Congress Chief Minister in the State, he said. About the possibility of his party allying with the one led by Mr. Karunakaran, he said there was no point of disagreement with the new party.
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