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AICC programmes will be implemented: Murali

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, APRIL 2. The former Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Muraleedharan has said that leaders and workers supporting him irrespective of he being in or out of the party will implement all the programmes chalked out by the All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Inaugurating the Dandi Yatra Memorial Convention organised by the district coordination committee formed by the `I' group here today, Mr. Muraleedharan asked whether there was any meaning in the Dandi Yatra conventions being organised by those Congress factions that had disgraced Mahatma Gandhi by seeking the votes of the RSS. In an indirect reference to the senior Congress leader Vayalar Ravi, K. Muraleedharan said that a person, who had gone to the headquarters of the RSS seeking votes for his wife, was now teaching him discipline.

He demanded that the practice of printing Mahatma Gandhi in currency notes should be done away with, as notes were being used to lure away Congress leaders.

He alleged that the present party leadership had no time to visit the houses of freedom fighters who had participated in the Dandi Yatra on the occasion of celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Yatra.

This shows how the official faction of the party had made `lapses' in honouring these freedom fighters, he said.

Liquor policy

Coming down heavily on the liquor policy of the Oommen Chandy Government, he said that the Chief Minister had left for the Dandi Yatra Memorial Convention after putting his signature on the Cabinet decision to start a beer parlour at the KTDC-owned Mascot Hotel.

``If anybody criticises the Chief Minister for serving liquor to journalists in New Delhi, it will amount to indiscipline. If one faction conducts rallies, it is indiscipline. And if another faction conducts rallies, it is an act of discipline,'' he said.

Eight freedom fighters were honoured on the occasion.

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