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Speaking at a Press conference here today, Mr. Vijayan said it was for the Speaker or the Chief Minister to respond to the CPI(M)'s notice which required convening of the Assembly to consider the motion. Either the Speaker or the Chief Minister had to announce when the Assembly would meet next. So far only the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, M.M. Hassan, had responded to the notice which had been served by CPI(M)'s Legislature Party Deputy Leader, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. Next meeting of the Assembly, in normal course, need be held only in February. However, such a long delay should not be allowed in view of the notice given for the removal of the Speaker from his office, he said. The CPI(M) leader said the Speaker himself should take the initiative and advise the Chief Minister to convene the Assembly without delay, if he believed in democratic values. If there was no move to hold an Assembly session immediately, his party would meet the Governor and request for an early Assembly session, Mr. Vijayan said. Mr. Vijayan was confident the motion against the Speaker would be carried when it was moved in the Assembly. His party also expected a group in the Congress to support the move. The CPI(M) leader defended the notice since in his party's perception the latter had demeaned his office by getting identified with one group in the Congress during the run-up to the by-election to the Ernakulam Lok Sabha. Mr. Vijayan was critical of the Government's handling of the law and order problem at Marad and said there was no justification for denying families of the accused in Marad massacre case their right to go back to their homes. During his visit to the Payyanakkal Government School on Friday, he found that the families staying there were deeply distressed. He was critical of the IUML leadership which he alleged had cheated party supporters by striking a peace formula for Marad which had ``secret understandings'' with ``communal forces''. The IUML had stayed way from the LDF-UDF meeting on Marad rehabilitation recently since in his opinion that party was facing an embarrassing situation. Since no political party was opposed to rehabilitation of the displaced Muslim families, there was no reason to keep out political organisations from the talks held to restore peace at Marad. He reiterated the CPI(M)'s stand that there was no need to order a CBI inquiry ``since the State police was the most appropriate agency to investigate the attack by militants which took place in Marad''. On the senior Congress leader, K. Karunakaran's statement that he had not held talks with CPI(M), Mr. Vijayan said, ``nobody has made such a claim''. He added that Mr. Karunakaran had not changed the stand, which he had taken on party matters. That was significant even though the happenings in the Congress were an internal matter of that party, he added.
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