A source of worry for the Congress is the position of  the Muslim League, which has been drifting away from the UDF leader and coming closer to the LDF. Though the League is divided on the question of reviewing its ties with the Congress, it may have to stay in the UDF if the

LDF persists with its policy of not having any truck with communal parties. State BJP president C.K. Padmanabhan ... claims that his party is fully prepared for a mid-term poll (and) hopes to send at least one MP to Delhi, either from Kasaragode in the north or Thiruvananthapuram in the south. But there is little chance of the BJP winning it ...