The lay group Catholic Congress has dismissed media reports that it has supported the move of some factions of pro-Christian Kerala Congress party to join the state’s ruling communist alliance of Left Democratic Front.
Such reports that appeared in a section of the media is “against the facts,” Catholic Congress president V.V. Augustine said in a May 2 press statement. If at all some leaders of the lay organization attended a recent meeting of Kerala Congress in Kanjirapally, “they did it in their personal capacity.
The Catholic Congress is not inclined to appreciate any political decisions that meeting might have taken,” the statement said. Media reports said prominent Kerala Congress leader and Catholic K.M. Mani may join LDF with the effort of his former associate Scaria Thomas, now a member of the CPM-led LDF.
