Thiruvananthapuram: BJP dissidents led by national executive council member P. K. Krishnadas has come out against state president V. Muraleedharan’s offer of cooperation with KC (M).
Mr Krishnadas said let Mr Mani come out from UDF and then they would decide. At the core committee meeting in Kochi, senior leaders and former party presidents had raised the issue of seeking the local-level support of the KC (M).
At the next day’s state committee meeting at Aluva Guest House, district presidents too raised it. They argued that in 50-odd panchayats, it would be good if BJP sought the support of the KC (M).
They also decided that BJP should never seek the support of Congress, CPM and Muslim League. Mr Krishnadas too had attended the meeting and approved this line.
Mr Muraleedharan had only said the party was ready to co-operate in local bodies. A peeved Mr Krishnadas, however, said the party had vigorously protested Mr Mani's corruption, and there was no relevance for a tie-up.
“Let Mani leave the UDF and come. Then an appropriate decision will be taken,” he said. But a prominent BJP leader said though the decision to seek the support was taken already, Mr Krishnadas was too keen to portray that factionalism was rampant.
“First the core committee and later the state committee decided to seek the support of KC (M). But unfortunately, Krishnadas came out with a negative remark,” he told DC
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