Kozhikode (Kerala), Sep 13 (IANS) Democratic Indira Congress-Karunakaran (DIC-K) leader K. Karunakaran and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar late Tuesday announced their decision to work together and move towards merger of their parties.

"The issue of the merger of the DIC-K with the NCP would be taken up at our forthcoming national executive at Dehradun Sep 16-17. A final decision would be arrived later," said Pawar after a 30-minute meeting with Karunakaran at the residence of K. Muraleedharan here.

Muraleedharan, DIC-K leader's son, said that the merger would take place this month itself. "We are having a general body meeting of our party Sep 18," he said.

The state executive of the DIC-K that met in Thiruvananthapuram Monday decided to entrust Karunakaran and Muraleedharan to have talks Pawar and take an appropriate decision including about the merger.

The NCP is an ally of Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist. It has only one legislator in the 140-member assembly.