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CPI (ML) to contest elections on its own

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Party says it will field candidates in four constituencies

PONDICHERRY: The State unit of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) will contest the coming Assembly polls here on its own and will field candidates in four constituencies (two each in Pondicherry and Karaikal regions), according to the secretary of the party S. Balasubramanian.

Constituencies

He told newsmen here on Tuesday that the party would field candidates in Ariayankuppam and Oulgaret in Pondicherry and in Cottuchery and Neduncadu (reserved) constituencies in the Karaikal region.

He also criticised that the CPI and CPI (Marxist) were aligning themselves with the Congress here although the Congress Government had been adopting what he described "anti labour and anti worker" policies.

Mr. Balasubramanian said that the Congress was a mute spectator to the current increase in the closure of industries by private entrepreneurs, leaving the workers in the lurch.

Stating that nothing had been done for farm labourers and also for the workers engaged by mechanised boat operators although the workers were hit by the tsunami and went without work for days togetherin a number of coastal villages in Pondicherry and Karaikal regions.

Plan funds "squandered"

Mr. Balasubramanian was anguished over what he felt the "attitude of the Pondicherry Government to spend money without any forethought and all plan funds were simply squandered away in unproductive ventures".

He was also upset over the opposition parties' failure to highlight the failure and shortcomings of the Congress Government.

One was "left wondering" whether there was any opposition party worth the name in Pondicherry at all.

Asked for the grounds on which the party had identified the four constituencies, he said that these were the constituencies where the CPI (M.L) had mobilised people by championing their causes intensively.

Mr. Balasubramanian hoped that it would emerge victorious with a record performance.

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