Pondy Cong. hails sacking of Kannan

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, DEC. 13. The president of the Pondicherry Pradesh Congress(I) committee, Mr. V. Narayanaswamy, has welcomed the sacking of the PWD Minister, Mr. P. Kannan.

Instead of giving the allegations in writing against a Minister, Mr. Kannan had preferred an approach that was unbecoming of a Minister in any democratic system, he told reporters here, and called for a thorough enquiry by the Chief Minister, Mr. P. Shanmugham, into Mr. Kannan's charges that the Cooperation Minister, Mr. Theni C. Jayakumar, had links with the LTTE.

Mr. Narayanaswamy said the LTTE was responsible for the killing of former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and hence whoever had a nexus with it, should be punished.

He discounted as politically motivated the demands of the PMK, BJP and DMK that the Shanmugham-led coalition ministry should quit office, and wondered that none of the three parties had criticised the behaviour of Mr. Kannan on the floor of the House, particularly, his walkout from the House and dharna along with a section of the Opposition. The DMK, particularly, did not have the right to demand that the coalition ministry headed by the Congress(I) quit because Mr. R.V. Janakiraman had headed a government even after the TMC had stepped out of the alliance in December last year.

Meanwhile, two PMK functionaries, Mr. M. Manjini and Mr. P. Sankaran, had an ``informal'' meeting with Mr. Kannan at his residence today, and later, a three-member Congress(I) team, comprising Mr. Narayanaswamy, former Ministers, Mr. A. Gandhiraj and Mr. Anandabaskaran, also called on Mr. Kannan, according to a source.

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