K. Muraleedharan, MLA, has said the stance of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president V.M. Sudheeran on the liquor policy has affected the Congress as well as the United Democratic Front (UDF) government.
Inaugurating the K. Karunakaran remembrance meeting here on Wednesday, he said the decision of the UDF government to implement prohibition in a phased manner had been lauded by the public. However, Mr. Sudheeran’s attitude of criticising the liquor policy had put the government in a dilemma and weakened the position of the party and its coalition partners. “This was all that I had pointed out,” Mr. Muraleedharan, a former KPCC president, said.
He said Mr. Sudheeran should argue his point on the liquor policy by convening the KPCC executive committee. Total prohibition was a utopian idea. This social evil could be stopped only in a phased and planned manner.
Mr. Muraleedharan also replied to the comments made by Mr. Sudheeran on Tuesday that he should not forget the path he had come, referring to the stance taken by the latter for facilitating his return to the party. “I am outspoken.
This is a quality I had acquired from my father K. Karunakaran,” he said. However, he maintained that Mr. Sudheeran had wholeheartedly supported his re-induction into the party. “I do not forget that. That was I visited him at his house after returning to the party,” he said.