ALAPPUZHA: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said on Monday that his Government would adopt the best practices and good examples set by previous Communist governments in Kerala right from 1957 and try to see whether the convention of Left governments ruling for continuous tenures in West Bengal and Tripura could be replicated here.

Inaugurating the district-level celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the first elected Communist Government here, Mr. Achuthanandan said a Left Government coming to power for a second consecutive time in Kerala was quite possible and that his Government had started moving in that direction.

Criticising the Centre for its foreign trade policies and low import duties that allowed multinationals to sell agro-products at low prices here, the Chief Minister said even the Vidarbha packages had shown that the Centre did not understand the farmer's problems.

The previous Congress Government in Kerala had tried to play down the seriousness of farmers' suicides here by refusing to accept the situation. It agreed to give figures after a lot of cajoling from the Centre and even when figures were submitted, only 218 suicides were shown, and not 1,500 as

farmers' organisations and prominent media publications had reported. The LDF Government, as soon as it came to power, found that it was 850, he said.

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