NCP in Kerala breathes easy as NCP is not with BJP

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has started to breathe easy as the party's move to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra is falling apart.

Ever since the Maharastra assembly election results are out, with no party getting a clear majority, confusion continued in the NCP's Kerala unit but the situation improved with the Shiv Sena going public that it will support the BJP in forming the government in Maharashtra.

The Kerala unit of the NCP, an ally of the Left opposition, is made up of the erstwhile Democratic Indira Congress-Karunakaran, the party founded by former chief minister K. Karunakaran, and those who have been all along with the NCP.

For the past one week, constant meetings were on in the NCP's Kerala unit, which has two legislators, with one section willing to abide by the national leadership and the other section strongly opposing joining hands with the BJP.