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VS: no room for bourgeoisie in party

Staff Reporter

The Chief Minister says Government working for LDF’s permanent rule.

Kozhikode: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that those one or two persons who have developed bourgeois tendencies in the CPI(M) will not be remaining in the party.

Inaugurating a meeting organised by the LDF city committee here on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the LDF Government in West Bengal, Mr. Achuthanandan said the bourgeois tendencies had crept into Communist parties when the latter were fighting against bourgeois. But this minority would be thrown out of the party. He, however, made it clear that the issue of accepting rupees one crore or two crore, as alleged, was not “seen as miniature acts” by the party.

The Chief Minister said the LDF Governments here could not usher in more reforms like in West Bengal because they were not in power continuously in the State. The people of the State had elected to power this LDF Government with two-thirds majority with the hope of changing this situation. The present LDF Government was going with its efforts to usher in a permanent rule of the LDF in the State, he said.

He said his Government took steps to take back the encroached land of the Government. Two Assembly Assurance Committees during UDF tenure pointed out in their reports that Tata had encroached upon 50,000 acres in Munnar. But the A.K. Antony and Oommen Chandy Governments did not do anything about this, he said.

Referring to the controversy erupting after he had erected a board of the State Government in Munnar, Mr. Achuthanandan said Tata declared soon after that it was forest land. Idukki District Congress Committee president and Mr. Chandy repeated in chorus that it was forest land. “If the land reclaimed was Forest Department land, did the forest officials question Tata officials even once on erecting their board on forest land? Did they issue even a small notice to the Tata officials,” he asked.

He said the Congress leaders were continuing with their “propaganda for the Tata company.” Earlier, the land reforms undertaken in the State did not include forest land. “The task of the present LDF Government is to include this forest land encroached upon, in the land reforms which so far remained an unfinished work,” he said.

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