‘Karunakaran will float secular democratic front’

face the music after December 4.

Hinting at the ‘I’ group effort to defeat the UDF candidate in the Tiruvalla by-election, he said he would be delighted to know how Antony would react to the ‘‘Tiruvalla debacle’’.

Muraleedharan also told the gathering, most of them from the CPM, that Karunakaran had taken a political decision and he would go on fighting till the end. ‘‘We do not need the people who set agendas and conditions. Karunakaran is following the political stance of the Congress high command. And who could challenge him ? Sooner or later Sonia Gandhi would realise that there is no future for the Congress without Karunakaran,’’ he said.

Referring to Speaker Vakkom Purushothaman’s disclosure that six MLAs from the ‘I’ faction would switch over to the ‘A’ camp, he said that a person like Vakkom would go to any extent to salvage the image of the Antony government for personal gains.