THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tone has been set for a deep analysis on the poll debacle of the UDF ,while also identifying the real threats .The liaison committee of the UDF which met here today has come to terms with the magnitude of the threat posed by the NDA in the state,against the backdrop of the growth registered by the saffron team in the recently held assembly polls.
The meet also assessed that the CPM had cleverly seeded a communal polarization even while creating an impression among the minorities as their protectors .It was felt that various orders brought out at the fag end of the UDF government had created lot of suspicion among the people,apart from the other negative campaigns,and resulted in a backlash in the polls.
Another UDF meet on June 8,from 10 am,to hold detailed discussions on a segment to segment basis is being plammed.'' It was decided that the all coalition partners shall conduct detailed analysis in each assembly segment before that and come up for the June 8 meeting'',UDF convenor P P Thankachan told a post-meet media briefing.''Today's meeting was very cordial'',he asserted,dismissing reports that coalition partners like the RSP and JD(U) are on a collision course with the Congress.
The meet took serious note of the escalating political violence in various parts of the state, though the LDF government is yet to take reigns .'' Like what the UDF had campaigned during the poll time,the CPM led LDF and BJP led NDA have kick started violence on a wide scale.
142 incidents of violence have been reported in the past one week and two have been killed. Party offices are being attacked and instances of destroying shops and agricultural crops in the holdings of political opponents have been reported'',Thankachan said.
''What will be the scenario after the government is sworn in,if it is like this ?'',he asked,maintaining that the Congress cannot remain a mute witness in the name of a poll defeat.''BJP and CPM are two sides of the same coin. Both of them will have to countered'',he said.
'UDF lost 15 seats for less than 2,000 votes'
Kerala Congress (M) chairman K M Mani and CMP leader C P John issued warnings and concern on the growth of NDA. P J Joseph pointed out that the UDF weakness in the poll front was evidently clear from the fact that it had lost the polls in around 15 segments with a margin of less than 2,000 votes.
''Had it been otherwise,the UDF tally would have been risen from 47 to 62'',he said. Supplementing it,IUML general secretary KPA Majeed said that the party had an organisational strength on its own to stem the outflow of votes in its turf whereas the UDF was devoid of it elsewhere.
KPCC president V M Sudheeran,UDF chairman Oommen Chandy,Ramesh Chennithala,P K Kunjalikutty,N K Premadchandran MP, V D Satheesan and others attended.