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Fight against the corrupt will go on: VS

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Sukumar Azhikode lauds eviction drive

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BEAMING WINNER: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan receiving the Ramasramam-Unneerikutty Award from social critic Sukumar Azhikode at a function in Kozhikode on Saturday. —

Kozhikode: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, while accepting the Ramasramam-Unneerikutty Award from social critic Sukumar Azhikode here on Saturday, declared that he would continue his struggle against corruption and encroachments.

“The crusade against anti-social and corrupt forces shall go on. As one of the crusaders fighting these forces, I shall continue my crusade. Our society is strong enough to resist and defeat such forces,” Mr. Achuthanandan said.

He declared that “our society will bring the corrupt to book however powerful they may be.”

“What I am doing is a continuation of the struggle that has been going on in our society against corruption and similar social evils,” Mr. Achuthanandan said.

His comments were in response to what social critic and writer Sukumar Azhikode, president of the committee that selected Mr. Achuthanandan for the award, had said at the function appreciating the efforts of the Chief Minister to evict encroachers and put down corruption.

Prof. Azhikode remarked that it would not be fair to find fault with Mr. Achuthanandan if he got a share of the public adulation for what his Government was doing. It was true that his party should get the credit. But it had also to be admitted that people tended to identify the Government with its Chief Minister.

Prof. Azhikode said he had sent a letter to CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday expressing the view that it would not be fair to complain that “VS is getting personal glory out of what the Government is doing” and stressing the need to put down corruption with an iron hand instead of encouraging it.

The Ramasramam-Unneerikutty Award, instituted 22 years ago in memory of the parents of businessman and social worker the late M.A. Unneerikutty, carries a cash prize of Rs.50,000 and a citation and is given to outstanding social, cultural, literary and political personalities. The award instituted as Ramasramam Award has been renamed Ramasramam Unneerikutty Award from this year, Award committee member A. Sankaran, and M.A. Sishan, member, Ramasramam Unneerikutty Trust, said. Mayor M. Bhaskaran, writer P. Valsala, and M.P. Veerendrakumar, MP, spoke.

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