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Sudheeran alleges plot to destroy IRE, KMML

Staff Reporter

Seeks Chief Minister's intervention to save the public sector firms

KOLLAM: The Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran has said that the controversial order of the Industries Department recommending privatisation of the mineral mining sector is aimed at ruining the public sector Indian Rare Earths (IRE) and Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML).

At a press conference here on Wednesday, he urged Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan's intervention to save the IRE and KMML. Also, there was a plot to launch a private sector company in place of the IRE and KMML. The recommendation had been made with the private company in mind.

``Responsible persons attached to the Industries Department during the last Assembly election period, a section within the CPI(M) and the mineral mining lobby are behind the conspiracy.''

Mr. Sudheeran said that neither the Cabinet of the United Democratic Front (UDF) nor the UDF had taken any decision to privatise the sector. This made the conspiracy all the more intriguing. The conspiracy could be unearthed only through an Assembly committee probe. Even the Public Undertakings Committee of the Assembly could undertake the task, he said.

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