The Hindu : Mani blasts CPI(M) `dual' policy

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Mani blasts CPI(M) `dual' policy

By Our Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA Feb 7. The Kerala Congress (M) leader and Revenue Minister, K.M. Mani, has alleged that the dual policy being adopted by various political parties like the CPI(M) while in power and out of power was the main hurdle in the path of development of the State.

Mr. Mani was inaugurating a three-day State leadership camp of the Kerala Youth Front (M) at Charalkunnu, near Kozhencherry, this afternoon.

According to him, the CPI(M) had already lost its ideological moorings with its leaders themselves differing on the party policy on various development issues.

Mr. Mani said that it was the previous LDF Government that had completed 90 per cent of the formalities for availing the loan from the Asian Development Bank. The UDF, which assumed power later, had completed the formalities. However, it was grossly unethical on the part of the Opposition CPI(M) and the LDF to oppose the ADB loan on mean political grounds, sidelining the interests of the State, he alleged.

The Minister alleged that it was the previous CPI(M)-led LDF Government that had sanctioned the Coca-Cola company project in the State and proposed the handing over the Pathiramanal island to a major hotel group. Ironically, the same CPI(M) and the LDF were now opposing it, the Minister alleged.

Mr. Mani called upon the KYF(M) leaders and cadres to launch a new chapter in the overall development of the State by ensuring maximum youth participation in the process and reaching the party's development policy to every household.

Presiding over the inaugural function, the KYF(M) State president, Jose K. Mani, said the Charalkunnu camp would be a landmark in the history of the party and it would chalk out a unique development culture for the State with maximum youth participation in it.

Mr. Jose said the KYF(M) would mobilise a one-lakh-strong development squad in the State as the first step towards its development agenda. He said political differences should not pose hurdles in the State's development issues and it was high time that the ruling as well as the Opposition parties arrived at a consensus on various development issues in the larger interests of the State.

He said the KYF(M) was for promoting self-employment schemes and revamping of the agriculture sector.

The KC(M) chairman and the Rural Development Minister, C.F. Thomas, the deputy leader, K. Narayana Kurup, the vice-chairman, P.K. Sajeev, the general secretaries, Joseph M. Puthusserry, Thomas Unyadan and Joy Abraham, the MLAs, Mammen Mathai, Thomas Chazhikadan, Stephen George, Roshi Augustine, and the former KYF(M) president, Victor T. Thomas, also spoke. The camp will conclude on Sunday.

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