Special Correspondent
Kozhikode: The three-day programme organised by the Nationalist Youth Congress (NYC), the youth wing of the K. Karunakaran-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), to mark the 65th anniversary of Quit India movement concluded here on Saturday night with a convention.
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel, NCP State president K. Muraleedharan and Mr. Karunakaran addressed the activists at the convention.
Party activists shouted slogans against LDF Government and took out a march through the city to mark the conclusion of the convention. Mr. Karunakaran, who addressed the march, said he would mould the NCP as a force to reckon with before the next elections.
The NCP would be part of a political front. Mr. Karunakaran said he had spearheaded the revival of the Congress four decades ago after it was reduced to a party with a handful of MLAs.
Land for airport
Foreign airlines would start services from Karipur airport by 2008, Mr. Patel said. He said the Centre would take a ‘lenient approach’ towards the proposed airport in Kannur. The State would have to provide the land for the airport, he added.
