"It is a matter of our self-respect. We will seek all options," senior KC(M) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Joy Abraham told PTI when asked whether the party would quit the UDF.
Accusing Congress leaders of hatching a 'conspiracy' to weaken KC(M) and Mani, he said the party would decide on all issues at its crucial two-day camp at Charalkkunnu this weekend, including the demand within the party to severe ties with Congress and UDF and sit as a separate block in the state Assembly.
The party, which contested the Assembly polls in May this year as a UDF alliance partner, has six MLAs, including Mani and veteran leader P J Joseph.
KC(M) leaders alleged that the party was "ignored" by Congress leadership despite it taking extra steps to save the previous UDF government by bringing Kerala Congress (J) to the alliance from the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
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"It was because of KC(M) and our leader Mani that the UDF government could rule the state for five years from 2011 to 2016. If Kerala Congress (J)-headed by P J Joseph had not merged with us in 2010, there would not have been a UDF government in the state," a senior Kerala Congress leader who did not wish to be named, said.
Meanwhile, party sources said Mani had left for a three- day spiritual sojourn at a church-run meditation centre in Kottayam.
The already sour relations between the two parties over the bar bribery scam sharpened recently after Congress leaders Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala attended the betrothal ceremony of the daughter of controversial hotelier Biju Ramesh with the son of Congress leader and former minister Adoor Prakash.
KC(M) has maintained that a "conspiracy" was behind the scam.