The Bharatiya Janata Party is associating with the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam, realising it as the representative of those sections of society that has been neglected by both the United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front, BJP State president V.Muraleedharan has said.
Addressing a meet-the-press programme at the Pathanamthitta Press Club on Saturday, Mr. Muraleedharan said all such sections of society who had been denied justice over the past four-and-a-half decades would be brought into the National Democratic Alliance fold. He alleged that the panic-stricken Communist Party of India(Marxist) as well as the Congress were holding desperate debates on the third front led by the BJP.
‘Missed call’ row
On the controversy over his statement that former BJP leaders P.P. Mukundan and K.Raman Pillai could take party membership through a missed call, Mr. Muraleedharan said his comment was not aimed at hurting anybody’s sentiments.
The BJP leader said he was only mentioning the present system of taking membership in the party, adding that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi too followed the same system for taking membership. Asked about Mr. Raman Pillai’s criticism that Mr. Muraleedharan became party president through unfair means, he said the former was not in the party when he became the BJP State chief. Moreover, the allegation was made by a person who had not been in the party for the past nine years.
Mr. Pillai had levelled similar charges against former BJP State president P.K. Krishnadas too, he added. Mr. Muraleedharan said the BJP was not against setting up an airport at a suitable site sans environmental issues.
