DIC(K) to protect its identity in Assembly polls: Karunakaran

Kochi, Mar 20 (UNI) Democratic Indira Congress (DIC-K) leader K Karunakaran today made it clear his party will not accept any electoral alliance forfeiting its political identity.

Inaugurating the party state delegates session here, he said DIC(K) was capabale of going it alone in the state and had not gone after either the ruling UDF or the opposition LDF for any alliance.

However, both these fronts were wary of DIC(K)'s grasssroot level strength which was the reason for so much of discussions on DIC(K) taking place in the fronts, he claimed.

Mr Karunakaran said his party would not hesitate to field candidates in all the 140 Assembly constituencies in the state if the situation warranted. However, it would be willing to help any party which offered to cooperate with it and vice-versa.

Asserting that DIC(K) would be a crucial force and a decisive factor in the coming election, he called upon the party workers to prepare for the electoral battle and assured its goal was not far away.

Presiding, DIC(K) State President K Muraleedharan said theirs was a principled political party, which will maintain its political morality at all times.

He assured partymen the DIC (K) will have more members in the new Assembly than the CPI, which had vehemently opposed the former's entry into the LDF after availing its support in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha byelection.

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