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BJP: Achuthanandan belies expectations

Special Correspondent

B.K. Sekhar

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman B.K. Sekhar said here on Friday that people's expectations about the new Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan, had been belied.

At a press conference on the occasion of the State Government completing 100 days in office, the spokesman said the people had expected much from the leader who led a crusade against injustice. However, Mr. Achuthanandan was not in a position to do anything as the party had put him under a tight leash. Corrupt elements had crept into the administration despite his campaign against graft.

The Chief Minister, Mr. Sekhar said, had spent 42 of his 100 days in office attending various party fora from Polit Bureau to State committee meetings.

The Ministers got their portfolios allocated only after 15 days, and eight of them had to attend party secretariat meetings eight times in 100 days. They should be vacating their party posts.

The Government limited loan waivers to farmers who had committed suicides. This incorrect policy would even encourage suicides. The Government also failed to use Rs. 1,341 crores as part of the tsunami rehabilitation package. It wavered on its position regarding Asian Development Bank loan and formation of a separate fund for disaster management.

The Home Department, he said, harmed the people most with the Home Minister losing control over the department. The goonda list was abolished to help 36 Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) men whose names figure in the list. The Home Minister's son, who had been declared a proclaimed offender, could obtain bail.

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