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Ghorpade to retire from politics

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE APRIL 23. The Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, M.Y. Ghorpade, has decided to retire from active politics after the completion of the five-year term of the Congress Government.

``I am tired and will retire from active politics after completion of this term. I will not contest the next Assembly elections,'' he told presspersons here today.

Mr. Ghorpade represents the Sandur constituency in Bellary district in the Legislative Assembly, having been elected for the seventh time to the House.

``The political climate is deteriorating very much. Vested interests are prevailing everywhere. Muscle power is increasing everyday,'' he said.

Remembering his political mentor and former Congress MP of Bellary, Tekur Subramanya, Mr. Ghorpade said after retirement, he would do social work and write books. "I am more than 70 years old now, and politics is no more an attraction for me.'' However, the Minister said that his ambition was to complete the task he had initiated in the department.

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