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High command to decide on Karunakaran re-entry: Antony

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KOCHI: Defence Minister and Congress Working Committee member A.K. Antony has said that it is up to the Congress high command to decide on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader K. Karunakaran’s re-entry into the party.

Asked about the nonagenarian leader’s intention to return to the Congress fold, Mr. Antony told newspersons on Friday that he was not game for a public discussion on the issue.

Earlier, speaking after opening a leaders’ camp organised by the Ernakulam district Congress committee, he said that one-party rule was not likely to return to the Centre in the immediate future. This was true in Kerala as well. The Congress needed to work with allies to win elections in Kerala.

He said the Congress had gone in for an alliance government at the Centre on the realisation that if the NDA’s communalist regime lasted long, it would lead to the splintering of the country.

Referring to the controversy over the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, he said the CPI(M) argued that India would not be able to pursue an independent foreign policy if the deal was clinched.

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