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Clarify stand on Narendran panel report: Pinarayi

Staff Reporter

`IUML raising issue in view of the ensuing Assembly polls'

KANHANGAD: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has called upon the State Government to end its evasive stand on Narendran Commission recommendations in the backdrop of the conflicting stances on the issues by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and the Nair Service Society (NSS).

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, on the sidelines of the Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram Kerala March, led by him, Mr. Vijayan said it was the defeat of its candidate in the Manjeri Lok Sabha Constituency that had forced the IUML to resuscitate the Narendran Commission report.

The report that had been ignored all these years was now being resurrected as Assembly elections were round the corner, the CPI(M) State secretary pointed out.

Referring to NSS general secretary P.K. Narayana Panicker's view that only Brahmins be appointed priests in temples, the CPI(M) leader said that such a step would reintroduce caste system and reverse the social progress of the State.

The CPI(M) could not agree with the NSS general secretary's stand, he said

To a question, Mr. Vijayan said that talks were under way for the inclusion of the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) in the Left Democratic Front (LDF).

The LDF would not turn down those deserting the United Democratic Front, the CPI(M) leader added.

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