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CPI(M) asked to declare Chief Minister candidate

Staff Reporter

`LDF strategy for elections is communal appeasement'

KOLLAM: Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF) State president P. Ramabhadran has asked the CPI(M) to either declare who is LDF's Chief Minister candidate or admit that the party has no candidate in the fray who can match the calibre of UDF Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Ramabhadran said that the LDF has always been betraying the voters by making a person who has not contested the Assembly elections the Chief Minister and then use the backdoor tactics by making him an MLA through a bypoll.

In West Bengal, the CPI(M) is honest with the voters by projecting a candidate in the fray as the Chief Minister. If the CPI(M) has any political decorum, it should declare its Chief Minister candidate for Kerala, he said.

The LDF strategy is communal appeasement. The voters of Kerala will reject that strategy, Mr. Ramabhadran said, adding the UDF will return to power with a thumping majority.

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