Thirvananthapuram: Veteran Leader K Karunakaran suffered yet another setback on Monday when the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in which his Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) merged recently, was expelled from the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF).
The decision to expel the NCP was taken unanimously after considering the political developments arising out of the merger of the DIC(K) with that party, LDF convenor Vaikom Viswam told reporters after the Front meeting.
The DIC(K)'s views on several issues were not approved by the LDF earlier and as they had now merged with the NCP, the meeting discussed the new political developments and it was decided not to retain the NCP as a constituent in the Front, he said. The decision to expel the NCP was only a continuance of the LDF's earlier stand on the DIC(K).
NCP leaders Cyriac John and A C Shanmughadas had earlier come to attend the LDF meeting at the AKG Centre, the headquarters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). But as some of the allies wanted to discuss the NCP issue at the meeting, these leaders had to leave the meeting.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), the other constituents in the LDF, have been opposing the NCP's presence in the Left fold for quite some time. CPI state secretary Veliyam Bhargavan had maintained that there was no question of accommodating the 'new' NCP in the LDF after Karunakaran's party merged with it.
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