"The triumvirs of the party should introspect if it was correct on their part to have denied me ticket by giving in to external pressures," Thomas said, in a veiled attack on Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, KPCC president V M Sudheeran and Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala.
Thomas, whose open advocacy of the Gadgil report on the Western Ghats convseration had incurred the wrath of the Catholic church in the Christian-dominated Idukki, said if he was given another chance to contest the victory of the LDF candidate could have been avoided.