Kottayam (Kerala), May 13 (PTI) NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair said on Wednesday that UDF coalition partners, including the IUML, should not have interfered in the Kerala chief minister selection process and that their intervention had delayed the decision.
Nair claimed that not just the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), but other UDF coalition parties also interfered in the selection process, which was an internal matter of the Congress. They should not have interfered or backed any of the leaders under consideration for the post, he said.
“The delay in a decision by the Congress central leadership is due to this interference. If not, the decision would have come much earlier,” he said.
Nair also claimed that there was some mystery behind the poster campaigns in support of the three leaders — K C Venugopal, V D Satheesan and Ramesh Chennithala.
He alleged that pressure was exerted by some coalition parties even before the Congress high command decided to seek their views.
“In fact, the high command decided to seek their views due to the pressure exerted by them,” the general secretary of the Nair Service Society, a forward Nair community outfit, told reporters here.
The interference by the coalition partners of the Congress was undemocratic, he added.
Nair also claimed that interventions were made by some as they wanted everything to come under them — in a reference to the coalition partners’ role in the matter.
The NSS general secretary further said that if an election is held now, the UDF will not even get 30 seats in view of the public opinion being against them currently over the CM selection issue.
“People are fed up with them right now,” he claimed. PTI HMP KH
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