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Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
By Our Special Correspondent
In a press release issued here, Mr. Bhargavan said Mr. Antony himself should take the blame for the problems he faced in the UDF now. "If he cannot retain the support of 100 MLAs with whom he had assumed office as the Chief Minister, it was his own fault," he said. "The LDF cannot be expected to extricate him from his difficulties. He has dug his own ditch," Mr. Bharghavan said. He said the problems within the Congress and the UDF were becoming more serious with each passing day. The national leadership of the Congress too had failed to check the internal problems of the party in Kerala. The Karunakaran group in the party was not ready to accept anything short of a leadership change in the Government to end the present standoff. The revolt was the direct consequence of Mr. Antony's "machinations to finish off the Karunakaran group," he said. "Mr. Antony is conveniently shutting his eyes to these facts, while raising the clamour that the LDF is trying to oust him using improper methods," Mr. Bhargavan said. He said the LDF had, during the last two-and-a-half years, organised several popular agitations against the Antony Government's `anti-people policies, corruption and communal appeasement'. "But, we had never sought the resignation of the Chief Minister...This was not in our agenda at all. We wish to come back to power only through another election," he said. Mr. Bhargavan said the Chief Minister was also posing the question whether it was proper to bring down the Congress-led Government in Kerala at a time when the Congress was engaged in a direct fight with BJP in the elections to the Assemblies in four or five other States. "When did Mr. Antony start realising the danger of the BJP? He has been overtly and covertly courting friendship with the Sangh Parivar here.
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