One step would prove a giant leap for Muraleedharan

By O.J.George

Kottayam: “A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind” was the famous comment of Neil Armstrong when he landed on the Moon.

His co-astronaut Edwin Aldrin has not so far compromised to his being the second human being to land on Moon.He feels that he was the first to land, but Armstrong had usurped his position and plagiarised the sentence he had written down for his use.

Anyway, Armstrong has been leading the life of a recluse ever since. And Aldrin has become a drunkard and almost a vagabond, according to various reports.

This is only an aside. What I want is such a small step, but which would result in a giant leap for our K.Muraleedharan, the state president of NCP.What is this small step?

He should find an opportunity to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and tender an unconditional apology for all the misdeeds and misquotes he had committed. Also he should give much publicity to his regeneration.

A glittering world would open up before him in the Congress Party. For some time, he should lie low. Anyway, when he is back in the Congress Party, he would be automatically in the KPCC executive by virtue of his position as one of the former presidents of KPCC.

P.A.Sangma had apologised to Sonia Gandhi most sincerely. Sharad Pawar is hand-in-glove with the Congress Party.His party would ultimately merge into the Congress, by any reckoning.

Muraleedharan had made signal contribution to the Congress Party earlier. He had proved himself to be an efficient organiser.

What keeps him back from making a public apology is his egoism, having been a power centre himself, in the shadow of the-then most powerful father, K.Karunakaran.

A world would be opening up before him, if he dispenses with other tactics and seek direct rendezvous with the Congress.There are at least a few leaders who would want him to work for the Congress Party, irrespective of a lot of opposition from some others.

A section of leaders would like to have his input to work as a balancing factor in the light of KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala aiming to become the undisputed leader.