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Minority appeasement led to UDF debacle: Vellappally

Staff Reporter

KOLLAM: Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has said that minority appeasement and anti-majority community postures of the Oommen Chandy Ministry had led to the rout of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the recent Assembly elections.

Mr. Natesan was inaugurating a career guidance course organised jointly by the SNDP Youth movement and the Kollam SNDP Union here on Wednesday.

Mr. Natesan alleged that the UDF Government had discarded the majority community. Claims that only the poor among the minority communities had voted for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) were not at all true. A majority of the majority community also voted for the LDF.

Claims that the Chandy Government had granted many favours to the SNDP Yogam were not at all true. Mr Natesan said that he was prepared to even hold a debate on the issue with Mr. Chandy.

He said the agitation against the Centre's move to provide reservation for the Backward Classes in Central higher educational institutions was a mockery. The very hands that tried to upset the Mandal Commission were behind the agitation, he alleged.

The Yogam leaders Mohan Shankar and N. Rajendran and the Communist Party of India leader Mullakara Ratnakaran spoke.

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