'Karunakaran's return to Congress would strengthen party'

Return of veteran leader K Karunakaran to Congress would only strengthen the party, senior party leader from Kerala V M Sudheeran said here. "Congress is a big organisation. Many had left the party and the organisation had always welcomed those who had returned to Congress", Sudheeran told reporters here.

The organisation had not shut doors on anybody, he said adding "I do not think anybody in Congress will object to the return of Karunakaran to the party". His return would only give impetus to the party on its forward journey, he said. The octogenarian leader who left Congress three years back and floated his own outfit DIC-K, which later merged with NCP, had expressed his wish to return to Congress. The Congress high command has not taken a decision on the matter.

A district-level meeting of political activists who support K. Karunakaran will be held at 11 a.m. on December 4 at G Auditorium on Hospital road. Kodoth Govindan Nair, N. Venugopal, M.V. Mani, N.K.A. Latheef, Ibrahim Kutty Kallar and others will speak, according to a press release.