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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief minister Oommen Chandy and his government is facing the biggest threat ever with finance minister K M Mani refusing to resign from the cabinet. If forced to resign K M Mani has threatened to withdraw support of his 9 MLAs to the UDF government.

It has become almost certain that K M Mani will withdraw his ministers and positions his party got in the government if he is forced to resign from the government by the Congress.

Now the debate among the political circles is that whether K M Mani will go out of the government or the UDF government itself has to go. The only solace for the Chandy camp is that there is a split in Kerala Congress led by K M Mani. A faction led by P J Joseph has demanded the resignation of K M Mani and they will declare this in the party steering committee meeting which will be held son. At present, three MLAs are against Mani in his party and are demanding the resignation of the finance minister.

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The Mani camp is of the view that all the positions the party has in the UDF should be given back if the Congress is forcing for the resignation and withdraw the support to the government.

But KPCC president V M Sudheeran and home minister Ramesh Chennithala have toughened the stand and informed the chief minister that he should seek the resignation if Mani is not willing to resign.

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Even though the chief minister had convened the UDF meeting to discuss the issue at 9 am today till now it could not be convened as K M Mani has decided to stay away from it. All the other UDF leaders are camping at the official residence of the chief minister and are having discussions to pacify K M Mani.