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Former MP K S Manoj,who left CPM recently over the partys stand on religious practices in its latest rectification drive,has moved a formal application for Congress membership. Manoj,now a medical practitioner in Delhi,placed his plea before the state Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala on Thursday.
The Congress is already sitting on the membership application from S Sivaraman,another ex-MP who had quit the CPM after being sidelined. It is learnt that the cases of the former comrades,a Latin Catholic and a Dalit, will soon be taken up by the party high command.
Disregarding the protest from a section of leaders,Congress in Kerala is favouring the ex-MPs entry into the party,which already had embraced another disgruntled Marxist leader A P Abdullakutty. Manoj and Sivaraman already have their eyes fixed on seats for Assembly elections,to be held next year.
