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Moily to attend Congress leadership meet

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A Congress leadership meeting here on Monday will decide on a number of issues, such as induction of a new Minister in the Cabinet for handling the Health portfolio. The Congress Working Committee member Veerappa Moily, who is holding charge of the party in Kerala, reached the State on Sunday for discussions on this and other subjects. He would also be attending Monday's leadership meeting.

There is the view that the Health portfolio is too big a portfolio for the Chief Minister or a Minister of his Cabinet to handle as additional portfolio. At the same time, questions arise as to whether it is appropriate to induct another new Minister as the Government has only a few more months to go. The induction of A. Sujanapal as Minister had invited criticism.

Two other issues to be considered by the leadership meeting are the implementation of the Narendran Commission report and reconstitution of some of the District Congress Committees in preparation for the Assembly elections. The party had been striving for a consensus both in the Congress and the United Democratic Front on the issue. Its recent efforts had been a limited success.

Probe sought

Our Kochi Staff Reporter adds:

KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala has asked the State Government to inquire into the tapping of phones of public persons. Talking to media persons at Kochi on Sunday, Mr. Chennithala said that the tapping of phones posed a serious situation in the State where the phones of private individuals were illegally tapped. Health Minister K.K. Ramachandran had to put in his papers following the airing of taped version of one of his telephonic conservations.

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