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NC(I) opens district office

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Situation similar to the 1978 split in the Congress

A share of the pie: The National Congress (Indira) State president, K. Muraleedharan, after inaugurating the district office of the party in Kozhikode on Monday. — Photo: S. Ramesh Kurup

KOZHIKODE: Assuring partymen that sincere and dedicated service to promote and popularise the newly formed National Congress (I) will be adequately rewarded, its State president, K. Muraleedharan, inaugurated the Kozhikode office of the party near the Corporation Office at Beach on Monday.

Mr. Muraleedharan reminded a large gathering of supporters who had crowded into the building to witness the inaugural function that Congress party offices had to function from rented premises even when the party had split in 1978. So, they need not feel unhappy that the National Congress (I) had to open an office in a rented building while the ruling Congress group operated from the DCC office. He said that in the official group, party workers had to be servile and sycophantic to get recognition. Even the Indira Bhavan, which houses the KPCC head-office in Thiruvananthapuram, assumed its present form when he (Mr. Muraleedharan) was the KPCC president, he said.

Mood of unity

About the split in the party, Mr. Muraleedharan said the situation was similar to when the Congress had split in 1978. A mood of unity had prevailed in the Congress led by K. Karunakaran then. It was after the Antony group, which had broken away from the Congress, returned to the parent party that dissidence and revolt surfaced.

K. Sadiri Koya, who has been nominated Kozhikode president of National Congress (I), and E.K. Gopalakrishnan, Corporation Councillor, were among those who spoke on the occasion. Other prominent leaders present at the function were the former Minister M.T. Padma and the Youth Congress leader K. Praveen Kumar.

Mr. Muraleedharan was accorded a public reception by his supporters at the Muthalakulam Maidan later in the evening.

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