THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition leader V D Satheesan said the Congress has the same stand with all communities. While talking to the media, he said the Congress has a secular stand with everyone.

‘If we had participated in the Global Ayyappa Sangamam, we would have been a bigger laughing stock than Pinarayi Vijayan. It was a political decision taken earlier by the UDF. We stand firm on it. We believe that our decision was right. Community organizations including the NSS can take their own decision and that is their freedom. We have no objection to it. What does the election have to do with it. All this is a stand when an issue arises.

When the meeting there flopped, everyone understood that our decision was right. Each political party will do many things to win the election. That is their

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