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Government has no right to continue in office: Jacob

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Kerala Congress(Jacob) leader T.M. Jacob

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Congress (Jacob) leader T.M. Jacob has questioned the Government’s moral right to continue in office after the High Court’s and the Supreme Court’s adverse remarks against it.

In a statement here on Saturday he contended that the High Court’s observation about the police being under the control of the underworld and the Supreme Court’s criticism of the Government’s failure to provide protection for the entrance test conducted by the self-financing medical college managements were nothing short of rebuke.

He charged the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) and the Government with trying to take over or destroy minority educational institutions. The demand for the withdrawal of the pastoral letter was a threat of sorts and the offer to hold talks on it a warning. He warned that the CPI(M)’s strategy of threatening from one side and talking about consensus from the other side would not work.

He described the cancellation of the affiliation of five Catholic engineering colleges as a warning to the minorities. Secret moves were afoot to cancel the affiliation of the remaining five colleges also. He said that threat was implicit in the very communication from the Calicut University cancelling the affiliation of two Catholic engineering colleges.

He said that of the remaining five Catholic engineering colleges, four came under Mahatama Gandhi University and one under Kannur University. The threat to them was palpable as the Left had the majority in the Syndicates of both those varsities. How could the Government expect the Church leadership to remain silent in such a situation, he asked.

The pastoral letter was something that concerned the believers and nobody had the right to demand its withdrawal. He charged the Government with trying to take over the control of aided schools also by bringing them under the Panchayati Raj. The ultimate aim of the reform was to bring the schools run by the Church also under the control of the CPI(M) at the local level.

The allegation levelled against Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala and the inquiry ordered into it was part of a move to silence political leaders also.

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