Pondicherry: Founder of Pondicherry Munnetra Congress (PMC) and former Home Minister of Pondicherry P. Kannan has called upon President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to intervene and dismiss the Rangasamy headed Congress Government in Pondicherry.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, Mr. Kannan said that the administration had not implemented any of the relief and rehabilitation measures for fishermen families affected by the tsunami last year. He said that a batch of women members of Kalapet, a tsunami-hit village, had met him earlier and complained that for want of houses they were left out in the cold.

Mr. Kannan said that the fishermen families were not relieved of their sufferings and he wanted to know how the money mobilized under the tsunami relief schemes had been utilized. He said that loans borrowed by farmers and fishermen and the interest due from them should be waived. Instead of addressing the peoples' problems the Government was squandering away money on non-productive projects, he alleged.

Mr. Kannan said that the Government was dilly-dallying on the issue of posting a Chief Engineer. Engineers of the Public Works Department have been agitating in support of their plea that the Government post a senior Superintending Engineer from within the department as Chief Engineer instead of an outsider from other states as had been done now.

He said that if the President could not dismiss the Rangasamy Ministry he would seek an explanation from Lt. Governor M.M. Lakhera on the "chaotic rule the people were now getting in Pondicherry at the hands of the Rangasamy led government."

Mr. Kannan also announced that his party volunteers would launch an agitation in Pondicherry and Karaikal as the problems of the poor, farmers and fishermen continued unabated.

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