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Candidates promise development

Staff Reporter

BJP accuses both fronts of ignoring the plight of the colonies at Kunnamangalam

Kozhikode: Communist Party of India (Marxist) nominee contesting from the reserved Kunnamangalam constituency in Kozhikode district C.P.Balan Vaidyar has said that he would take the initiative to set up another venture in the premises of the defunct Mavoor Rayons Factory if the Left Democratic Front (LDF) is voted to power in the coming Assembly elections.

Speaking at a meet-the-candidates programme at the Press Club here on Tuesday, Mr. Vaidyar said that it was during the rule of the United Democratic Front (UDF) that the factory was closed down whereas the former Nayanar Ministry took measures to see that the management paid salary to the employees.

Thousands of casual labourers were still to get their dues, he said.

He accused the IUML-supported Independent candidate U.C. Raman of not undertaking any development schemes in the constituency.

Most of the projects completed during the last five years were actually envisaged during the last LDF regime, Mr. Vaidyar said.

Earlier, Mr. Raman said that he had made revolutionary changes in the constituency. Five bridges and important roads, including the one connecting Kozhikode and Nilambur, were constructed.

Thirteen village roads were upgraded to major roads. Commissioning of the AEO's office, starting of Plus Two courses at five schools, two self-financing engineering colleges and implementing the Edusat programme in three schools were his other achievements, he said.

BJP candidate K.K. Bharathan said that the Kunnamangalam and its people had not benefited anything although they had elected an LDF candidate for 15 years and UDF candidate for 10 years since the formation of the reserved constituency.

No elected representative had taken steps to improve the pathetic conditions of the colonies, especially the Mukkom settlement. Five major rivers of the State flow through the Assembly constituency but no one had envisaged any drinking water schemes for its citizens. The MLA fund had not been utilised for alleviating the sufferings of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Mr. Bharathan said.

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