A.K. Antony

ALAPPUZHA: The meeting of the recently elected ward Congress committees will be held at the Municipal Grounds here on Sunday.

Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony will inaugurate the meeting. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy and senior leader V.M. Sudheeran, among others, will attend the meeting.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Alappuzha District Congress Committee (DCC) president A.A. Shukoor said the meeting was one among the major steps initiated by the Congress, earlier this year, to strengthen its ties at the grass-root level. All the 1,275 ward Congress committee presidents would attend the meeting, the first of its kind in Kerala, he said.

A three-point `charge-sheet' would be drawn up against the Left Democratic Front Government in the State, he said. The `charge-sheet' would highlight the "failure" of the State Government in protecting the farmers in Kuttanad from facing losses in the present harvest season. It would also seek to highlight the tardy progress in the rehabilitation programme for the tsunami-hit in Arattupuzha and the lack of law and order in Alappuzha, Mr. Shukoor said. The meeting would also chalk out an action plan against the district administration's "failure" to initiate precautionary measures to check the health problems faced by the people in Alappuzha.

Mr. Shukoor alleged that the top brass of the district police had failed to check the activities of anti-social elements in Alappuzha town. Mr. Shukoor flayed District Superintendent of Police E.J. Jayaraj for the situation in Alappuzha. He said there had been several instances of robberies, chain-snatchings, `hafta' extortions and attacks on citizens in the region.

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