JD(S) Kerala Unit Will Stand Independently, Says Minister Krishnankutty

Amidst the raging controversy over JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda’s assertion on his social gathering’s alliance with the BJP, Kerala Electricity Minister Ok Krishnankutty on Sunday mentioned that the state unit has determined to face independently.

Krishnankutty mentioned he and state JD(S) president Mathew T Thomas met with the social gathering management in Karnataka and knowledgeable them that an alliance with the BJP was not acceptable.

We advised them that what they did was not proper, he advised a TV channel.

“We informed them that we are ending the relationship and that we would remain independent and then we came back. We had a committee meeting here and decided to stand independently. Everyone was in agreement with that and that is the factual position,” he mentioned.

The Congress-led UDF alliance has been accusing the ruling CPI(M) within the state of not severing ties with the JD(S), which has joined fingers with the BJP on the nationwide degree.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had, on Friday, rejected the declare that he had endorsed LDF’s accomplice JD(S) having an alliance with the BJP in Karnataka and mentioned it was “both baseless and devoid of truth”.

Deve Gowda had on the following day mentioned that there was ‘some confusion’ in Kerala’s CPI(M) with regard to his social gathering’s alliance with the BJP in Karnataka, and clarified he by no means mentioned that the ruling Left social gathering within the neighbouring state supported the tie-up.

CPI(M) state secretary M V Govindan had on Saturday mentioned there was no have to take away Krishnankutty from the Kerala cupboard because the state unit of the JD(S) had clarified that they ‘stand strong’ on the Left entrance.

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