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Dissolution part of conspiracy: MVR

Staff Reporter

KANNUR: Former Minister for Co-operation and leader of the Communist Marxist Party M.V. Raghavan alleged that the disbanding of the governing body of the Kerala State Cooperative Hospital Complex (KSCHC), which runs the Academy of Medical Sciences at Pariyaram, is part of a calculated move by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to destroy the medical institution.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Mr. Raghavan, who was the chairman of the disbanded administrative body of the cooperative society, said the CPI(M) leadership and the Government seemed to have forgotten that the takeover of the college and the hospital by the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in 1997 had led to a liability of Rs.142 crore, which had been mentioned in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The present liability of the society amounting to Rs.250 crore had been imposed during the takeover period, he added.

Mr. Raghavan said that Minister for Cooperation G. Sudhakaran led the effort to disband the governing body on December 23. Mr. Sudhakaran, who was at Pilathara, instructed Cooperative Department officials to dissolve the body. Fifty CPI(M) workers were present on the medical college campus when the officials reached there to execute the administrator's rule. The officials beat up two medical college staff members, he alleged. "The decision to disband the governing body was discussed in the LDF as it was the second item in the priorities fixed for the Cooperation Ministry by the LDF," he said. He added that Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan would have been aware of the discussion.

The hospital society, Mr. Raghavan said, was not a federal society with 25 members as had been termed by the Co-operative Department officials for dissolving the body on the ground of loss of quorum. The CMP leader said the Cooperative Registrar rejected the society's application to be upgraded from a primary society to federal society.

The Government cancelled the society's general body meeting scheduled for January 3, Mr. Raghavan said.

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