Kannur, August 18: Former NCP state President K Muraleedharan, whose bid to come back into Congress fold is being resisted by a section in the party, today said he would work for Congress candidates in three assembly byelections due in Kerala, regardless of uncertainties over his re-admission.
“I have become a Congress man mentally. I will work for the Congress in the by-polls, whether I am being re-admitted to the parent party or not”, Muraleedharan, son of veteran Congress leader K Karunakaran, said at a gathering of his supporters here.
Muraleedharan said some leaders in Kerala were out to block his re-entry into the Congress by seeking to provoke him using a section of the media. This strategy would not work as he had decided to keep utmost restraint, he said.
Muraleedharan, who once headed the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), left the party five years ago and went on to become the NCP state President.
Recently he resigned from NCP and expressed his wish to be back in the Congress even as a strong section in the state unit was opposed to taking him back.
—Agencies