Addressing a crowded news conference here a day after being acquitted in the Coimbatore serial blasts case, Mahdhani said he had committed mistakes in the past.
“Nine years of jail has taught me enough. I realised some of my past mistakes. I am not saying that my ideology was wrong. If some of you thought that my line was extremist it was a misunderstanding. I faltered only in the way that I approached things. Maybe I was immature at that time. Henceforth, I would do nothing that will bring harm to the people of Kerala,” he said. 
 Earlier, the PDP leader was accorded a tumultuous welcome by his supporters at Thiruvananthapuram airport where he arrived from Ernakulam.
Though he was acquitted in the blasts case on Wednesday morning, Mahdhani’s release from the Coimbatore jail was delayed by several hours.
This was because he needed to get bail in a case pending before the Kerala High Court. This was secured and communicated to the jail late in the evening. Mahdhani and his entourage later reached Kochi in the wee hours of Thursday from where he took a flight to the capital.
Having lost almost half the 110 kgs he weighed when he was jailed, the 42-year-old Islamic cleric looked tired and almost a shadow of his ebullient past.
He even declared that he has no plan to sue any government or organisation for his nine-year-long ‘ordeal’ in jail. In fact he went on to declare that he would not pursue the case against those who threw bombs at him in 1992. Mahdhani had lost his right leg in the attack allegedly by RSS activists.
“I am planning to move the court pleading to drop charges against them. One of them even met me in jail,” he said.
Scope for Third Front
Elaborating on his political line, Mahdhani said there was scope for a third front in Kerala.
He wanted to explore the possibilities of forging the front on the lines of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s successful Dalit-Muslim unity.
However, at present the PDP had extended issue-based support to the LDF.  A public meeting held here in the evening was attended by Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and other leaders.