ALAPPUZHA : The SNDP Yogam would take a decision on its support to the UDF or the LDF only after considering their election manifestos and the yardsticks used for selecting the candidates, SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan said here on Tuesday.

Addressing presspersons after a meeting of the SNDP Yogam Council at Cherthala, Mr. Natesan said the council had entrusted him to take the decision on the issue. The Yogam would support those candidates who had helped it and would take a favourable stand towards those parties that considered social and communal justice while fixing their candidates.

Chandy flayed

Mr. Natesan said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had cheated the Yogam. Mr. Chandy who promised to sanction a school to the Yogam at Padiyoor in Malabar later allotted it to another group.

During the last Assembly election, UDF leaders had promised to allocate education institutions to the Yogam in six districts in Malabar.

But the UDF Government failed to keep the promise, he said.

Mr. Natesan said the LDF had lost its credibility by showing the backdoor to DIC(K) leader K. Karunakaran after accepting his support in the last parliamentary and local body elections.

The change of mind of Mr. Karunakaran had given a new lease of life to the UDF, which was in a predicament after the last local body elections, Mr. Natesan said.

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