THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sudheeran said gifting the Rajya Sabha seat to the Kerala Congress (M) is the beginning of the total destruction of the party in the state and the decision would eventually strengthen the BJP. He was speaking to the reporters after staging a walkout from the UDF meeting, which decided to take Mani and his party back into its fold. “The decision was never discussed in the political affairs committee of the party nor in the KPCC. They have cheated the Congress workers of the state and the end beneficiary of this decision will be the BJP,” said Sudheeran.
The Congress has sacrificed its seat for Kerala Congress without any consultations and this will leading to total chaos and cause irreparable losses to the Congress,” he said.“I’ve no opposition to Mani coming back to the UDF, but the method adopted can’t be accepted and the Congress party in Kerala will lose its ground on this. Party workers are totally dejected and such a crisis has never happened in Congress,” said Sudheeran.
Former KPCC president K Muraleedharan MLA sarcastically said: “The Congress should provide a sitting Lok Sabha seat and take back M P Veerendra Kumar who has left the front”.Senior leader Rajmohan Unnithan also lashed out at the decision and said the Congress activists have lost their self-pride.In a related development, Indian Lawyers Congress state president M V S Namboodiri resigned from the post and also from the primary membership of the party.“The Congress leaders who have given the RS seat to the Kerala Congress on a platter to protect the self-interests of leaders will have to answer to the party workers in the days to come,” said Namboodiri.