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DIC in LDF's backyard: Hassan

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress spokesman M.M. Hassan has regretted that the people who had left the Congress to join the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) had landed in the backyard of the Left Democratic Front (LDF).

Mr. Hassan told a news conference here on Tuesday that those who had left the party by the backdoor could re-enter the Congress through the front door and need not worry about LDF convener Paloli Mohammed Kutty's statement that those who sought to enter the LDF through the backdoor would have to leave by the backdoor. He also disclosed that his party was in alliance with the R. Balakrishna Pillai-led Kerala Congress (B) in several wards in Kollam district.

`A BJP link'

The Congress leader alleged that the LDF decision to allow the former Indian Federal Democratic Party leader P.C. Thomas to enter the alliance through the Kerala Congress (J), after having stalled the entry of a person like Mr. Balakrishna Pillai to join the Janata Dal (Secular), was proof that it had decided to use him as a link to the Bharatiya Janata Party. The LDF convener should clarify whether his statement about those who enter the LDF through the backdoor applies to Mr. Thomas as well.

He said CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and Mr. Mohammed Kutty's statement foreclosing the possibility of joint campaigns with the DIC was a disgrace for the DIC workers. When K. Karunakaran was in the Congress, every person he proposed was given seat in elections.

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