Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as soon as he returns from the United Nations General Assembly, should confess his Government’s corrupt hand in the 2G Spectrum deal and announce the resignation of his Cabinet.
Addressing the last session of a 24-hour sit-in staged at Kalavoor near here by over 1,000 volunteers protesting the UDF Government’s neglect towards public sector units, Mr. Achuthanandan said the Prime Minister had reaffirmed his confidence in Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram only because he knew that if Mr. Chidambaram had to go jail, he too would have to go.
Stating that Dr. Singh, on his return from the UN Assembly, should show the courage to confess his Government’s shady deals in the 2G Spectrum deal and announce the resignation of the entire Union Cabinet, Mr. Achuthanandan said. Mr. Achuthanandan also said that the public in Kerala would have to be more vigilant now about the State’s industries, since P.K. Kunhalikutty, who had “sold off factories and pocketed huge sums of money” when he was the Industries Minister in the previous UDF Government, was once again in charge of the same portfolio.
The Oommen Chandy government, Mr. Achuthanandan said, was on a multi-crore advertising campaign, misleading the public on their initiatives with false ads splashed across the entire media. The Kannur International Airport project was one such made-up initiative, since “the foundation stone laid by Mr. Chandy was right opposite the foundation stone laid by the LDF Government for the same project, with both stones now standing and smiling at each other”.
T.M. Thomas Isaac, MLA, delivering the presidential address, reacted to a Congress statement that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy would visit Kalavoor to address the issue by stating that Mr. Chandy need come only if he had the answers to the questions that would be posed by the local public.
The agitation would continue till everything that was sanctioned for Alappuzha in the previous LDF Government’s final budget was realised, Dr. Isaac added.
C.S. Sujatha, former MP, CPI (M) district secretary C.B. Chandrababu and others were also present.
