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Veerendrakumar’s poser to VS

ALAPPUZHA: President of a faction of the Janata Dal (Secular) M.P. Veerendrakumar has said that Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan should have checked all facts properly before stating that the Central forces would sit in the barracks during the Kannur Assembly bypolls.

Speaking at a meet-the-press programme here on Tuesday, Mr. Veerendrakumar said criminalisation of politics in Kannur was a known fact. The Central Election Commission, taking such facts and the present situation into consideration, had sent the forces to ensure that the elections took place in a free and fair atmosphere.

Mr. Achuthanandan should have studied these issues before making such statements, he said.

The Chief Minister, also before levelling allegations on the Free Trade Agreement, should have first made public the contents of the letter written to him by Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma on the FTA. What actually transpired between Mr. Achuthanandan and Mr. Sharma should be made public by Mr. Achuthanandan .

Mr. Veerendrakumar also questioned the CPI(M) demand for sacking Union Telecom Minister A. Raja in connection with the spectrum allotment controversy, saying that a party which was trying to defend its State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC Lavalin case had no right to point fingers at others.

Earlier, the JD leader decried the proposed restrictions on provision of government matters to the media, stating that communist governments of A.K. Gopalan or E.M.S. Namboodiripad had not bid to curb media freedom.

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