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Karunakaran's son gets Cabinet berth

January 31, 2004 16:58 IST
By Onkar Singh in New Delhi

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee chief and son of rebel leader K Karunakaran, Muraleedharan, will soon be inducted as a minister in Chief Minister A K Antony's cabinet.

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This was disclosed on Saturday by Congress spokesman Anand Sharma at a press conference in New Delhi.

On Wednesday, Karunakaran had made public his intentions to form a new group and contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections independent of the Congress.

If that announcement was a pressure tool to get his son into the state Cabinet , it has worked just fine.

Anand Sharma said Muraleedharan will soon tender his resignation from the PCC chief's post.

Asked if Muraleedharan's induction was aimed at pacifying Karunakaran, Sharma said: "I hope the step works in that direction."

 

Onkar Singh in New Delhi

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