NCP expelled from LDF

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Thirvananthapuram, Dec 11 (UNI) Veteran Leader K Karunakaran suffered yet another setback today when the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) -- with which his Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) merged recently-- was expelled from the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala.

The decision to expel the NCP was taken unanimously after considering the political developments arising out of the merger, LDF convenor Vaikom Viswam told the reporters here after the Front meeting.

The meeting discussed the new political developments after the merger and it was decided not to retain the NCP as a constituent in the Front, he said.

It is to be noted here ever earlier that the DIC(K)'s views on several issues were not approved by the LDF and the decision to expel NCP after its merger with the party was only in continuance of the LDF's earlier stand on it.

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, they 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 front for quite some time.

The CPI state secretary Veliyam Bhargavan had maintained that there was no question of accommodating the 'new' NCP in the LDF after Mr Karunakaran's party merged with it.

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