Kochi, Saturday 03 Jan 2009: NCP State president K. Muraleedharan has said a decision on his party’s entry into the UDF will be taken before the third week of February, prior to his State-wide rally.
Addressing a Nationalist Mahila Congress convention at Aluva, he said the party would contest all the 20 Lok Sabha seats if the entry did not materialise.

Those who wanted to keep NCP away from an alliance should be able to do so in Delhi and Maharashtra.
The decision on entry would be taken by the leadership in Delhi and not locally, he said.
Kerala is having the weakest Chief Minister ever in power, but it was futile to think that anti-government sentiments could be converted into votes, he said.