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Kerala
By Our Special Correspondent
Responding to a calling attention motion by Oommen Chandy (Congress), the Minister said the Chief Minister, A. K. Antony, in Delhi the other day, had spoken to the Union Commerce Minister about it. The issue had also come up for discussion at the meeting of Members of Parliament held here on July 5. Mr. Sankaranarayanan said the tyre lobby had a hand in the Central Government decision and said it had come at a time when the State was hoping for a rise in rubber prices owing to shortfall in supply. The information available with the Government was that tyre manufacturers had got the Centre to issue advance licence for rubber import. If the Centre were to allow rubber import with effect from February 1999, when the advance licence scheme was suspended, around 1.20 lakh tonnes of rubber would be imported, he said. Intervening, the Speaker, Vakkom Purushothaman, assured the House that steps would be taken to communicate to the Centre the anxiety of the House about the import decision.
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