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`Govt. has an agreement with COMED-K'

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BJP Yuva Morcha for uniform law across the country on admissions

BANGALORE: The BJP Yuva Morcha has alleged that the Government has entered into a secret understanding with the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges in Karnataka (COMED-K), allowing the latter to hold parallel entrance tests for medical and engineering students. Barring the non-Karnataka candidates from CET is meant to help COMED-K, the BJP Yuva Morcha President, C.T. Ravi, alleged here today.

At a press conference to announce the reconstituted Yuva Morcha and the new office-bears, Mr. Ravi, who is also the MLA for Chikmagalur, said it is intriguing that the Government took the decision to exclude non-Karnataka students even as the Supreme Court verdict on the matter is awaited.

Mr. Ravi demanded an urgent solution to the CET tangle and said a law applied uniformly across the country would be the ideal solution to the problem.

He said the Yuva Morcha will launch an agitation to highlight what he called the callous attitude of the Government towards the 18.66 lakh unemployed youth in the State. The unofficial figure is in excess of one crore and the jobless youth are waiting for the Rs. 500 monthly dole promised by the Congress in its election manifesto. Over 1.8 lakh posts in various government departments are vacant, and even the backlog appointments have not been made. The State Government has not made any move to constitute the Yuva Parishat, and the Rs. 2 crores allocated for the national youth sports festival is inadequate, Mr. Ravi said, saying this initiative requires a budget of at least Rs. 500 crores.

`Govt. indicted'

The party MLA for Uttarahalli, R. Ashok, said the Karnataka High Court verdict on the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project is an indictment of the Congress-Janata Dal (S) coalition, and the Chief Minister and his colleagues have no right to continue in office.

The silence maintained by the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, when the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Panchayat Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar, made provocative remarks against the State on the Cauvery dispute, showed that the Congress does not have the interests of the State at heart, he said.

On the rise of the land mafia in and around Bangalore, he said members of the ruling coalition are coming up with varying figures on the extent of land "stolen" by it.

He said the Revenue Minister, M.P. Prakash, must come out with a White Paper on the extent of land given to various ashrams and religious and educational institutions in and around Bangalore.

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