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KPCC opposed to Murali’s return to Congress

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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Thursday put on record its opposition to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) State president K. Muraleedharan returning to the Congress, let alone his attempt to make the NCP a partner of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

KPCC spokesman M.M. Hassan, addressing a press conference here, said the Congress party was opposed to making the NCP a partner of the UDF or readmitting Mr. Muraleedharan to the Congress.

Not an inn

“The Congress party is not a travellers’ inn for people to come and go as they pleased,” he said in reply to a question on Mr. Muraleedharan’s possible return to the Congress.

He said Mr. Muraleedharan had been making conflicting statements, opposing the UDF and supporting the ruling Left Democratic Front.

He was in the forefront in supporting Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case.

The 1980 split in the Congress, led by A.K. Antony, cannot be compared to the split engineered by Mr. Muraleedharan a few years back. The reunion took place at the initiative of the then Congress president Indira Gandhi.

“We have nothing to say if the high command approves his entry,” Mr. Hassan said.

Baby criticised

The KPCC spokesperson criticised Education Minister M.A. Baby for trying to put the blame on the UDF for the current mess in the self-financing professional education sector.

His view that the current problems had cropped up because the former UDF government had failed to get the managements sign an agreement was baseless.

Commercialisation

“We would like to know the fate of the agreement that the government has signed with a few private managements,” he said and alleged that Mr. Baby and Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran are promoting commercialisation of education.

The KPCC expressed its opposition to the government’s move to increase power tariff and house tax.

The KPCC executive, at its meeting on August 7, will give shape to a series of agitations on key issues that affect the people, he said.

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