THRISSUR: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leaders said the party would support all actions against extremist activities.

It was announced at a joint press conference here on Thursday by IUML State secretaries E.T. Muhammed Basheer, M.K. Muneer, T.A. Ahammed Kabir and PHA Abdul Salim Haji.

Mr. Basheer said the Government and the official investigating agencies should find out those who indulged in such activities.

Quoting from a recent statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that "no community should be identified with extremism," Mr. Basheer said steps should be taken to ensure that innocent people from any community were not hounded in the name of anti-extremist operations.

LDF performance

Mr. Basheer said the performance of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government during the first 100 days of its term was disappointing.

The Government was acting contrary to promises before the elections. He said the LDF leaders, while in the Opposition, raised a clamour whenever a farmer committed suicide.

Now, an LDF Minister asked what the farmers' organisations did to prevent the suicides.

The LDF leaders launched a campaign against the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government when an engineering student, Rajani S. Anand, committed suicide. Now, they were silent when the self-financing B.Ed. student Biji committed suicide at Ollur, he said.

`Anti-minority stand'

The IUML leader alleged that the LDF Government's anti-minority stand was exposed with the filing of the affidavit in the High Court that the minorities in Kerala need not be given the special privileges enshrined in the Constitution as they had achieved enough progress.

Minorities, especially the Muslims, were educationally backward in Kerala, Mr. Basheer said.

`LDF creating confusion'

The UDF Government, during its tenure, chalked out development schemes such as the Express Highway project, Smart City project, Vallarppadam Container Terminal project and the Vizhinjam Harbour project. However, the LDF created confusion in these schemes, the IUML leaders said.

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