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No confusion in CPI(M) over Karunakaran: VS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said there is no confusion in the CPI(M) and Left Democratic Front’s attitude towards senior politician K. Karunakaran, who was now trying to return to the Congress from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Briefing journalists after a Cabinet meeting here on Thursday, he said Mr. Karunakaran seemed totally confused under which political party he should function. “He is a controversial politician, against whom there had even been certain court remarks. He is my friend as well as the prime accused in a case I had filed in the court,” Mr. Achuthanandan said, in an apparent reference to the palmolein case.

He said there had been occasions in the past when the CPI(M) had got into alliances or understandings with parties with opposing ideologies or no ideologies at all. The CPI(M) and the LDF had such arrangements with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in the local elections some time back. Similarly, there had been an arrangement with the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) (DIC-K) in the last Lok Sabha polls.

But, the CPI(M) central leadership had evaluated all aspects of such political adjustments to come to a decision that the party should not surrender its Leftist-secular credentials in future, Mr. Achuthanandan said.

To a question, he said he was likely to meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on December 19, when both of them would be in New Delhi for the next meeting of the National Development Council, to discuss the issue of building a new dam at Mullaperiyar to replace the existing one. Mr. Achuthanandan, during his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi earlier this week, had proposed such a meeting.

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