No recommendation on two former CPI-M MPs joining party: Congress

New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) The Congress Monday said it had not received any recommendation from its Kerala state unit in favour of two former MPs of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) joining the party.

Party general secretary Mohsina Kidwai, who is in charge of Kerala, said she  had not got any report favouring the induction of former CPI-M leaders K.S.Manoj and S. Sivaraman.

"Nothing has come to me (from Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee)," Kidwai said.

She, however, did not rule out their joining the party either.

A senior Congress leader in Kerala had said that preliminary parleys were being held in the party over the induction of the two former CPI-M MPs and the matter would be discussed at the level of the state leadership. He also said that three more leaders were expected to leave CPI-M.

Manoj, CPI-M MP (2004-09) from Alappuzha had quit the party on ideological grounds last month. Sivaraman left CPI-M last week expressing dissatisfaction with its present policies.

Former CPI-M MP from Kannur A.P. Abdullah Kutty, who was expelled from the party in 2009, is a Congress legislator from the Kannur assembly constituency.