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LDF clears power-sharing with DIC(K) at local level

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Decision left to the panels at lower level

TAKING STOCK: LDF meeting to review the election results in progress in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. - Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) has virtually cleared the way for power sharing with the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) in the local bodies by deciding to allow LDF panels at the lower level to take appropriate decision in the matter depending on local needs.

Briefing reporters after the LDF State committee meeting here today, front convener Paloli Mohammed Kutty said that since the electoral adjustments with the DIC(K) were made at the local level, it was appropriate to take decisions on power-sharing also at the local level. The LDF district committee concerned would take the decision on power-sharing with the DIC(K) in district panchayats. The mandalam LDF committees would take the decision in the case of the other local bodies where the DIC(K) is a major presence, he said.

Mr. Mohammed Kutty said there was no compulsion on the lower level LDF committees to accommodate the DIC(K) in the power-sharing arrangement in the local bodies, but it did not also see any reason to practise untouchability towards the DIC(K) and the Indian National League (INL) in the matter.

Asked when the DIC (K) could hope to become an LDF constituent, he said the LDF position on that question would depend on the new party's stand on various issues, which was for the time being in a State of evolution. If things evolve in tune with the policies of the LDF, there would be an alliance, but if things go other way, the relations between the two sides would sour, he said.

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