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Delay in admissions a ploy, says Mani

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K.M. Mani: This is to help education agencies in neighbouring States.

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Kerala Congress (M) leader K.M. Mani has alleged that the confusion and delay in admission to medical and engineering colleges have been stage-managed by certain Left Democratic Front (LDF) quarters having an unholy nexus with professional education agencies in neighbouring States.

Mr. Mani was inaugurating a day-long fast organised by the Minority Rights Protection Council attached to the Thiruvalla Archdiocese of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in Thiruvalla town on Monday.

He said it was unfortunate that admissions were yet to begin in the State when colleges outside had completed them. The inordinate delay in resolving the crisis exposed the lack of social responsibility and commitment of the Government.

Mr. Mani alleged that the Government was trying to destroy the private education sector, sidelining its rich contributions to the educational advancement of the State in the post-Independence period. The Government had even prepared a Bill with a dubious intention to destroy the educational institutions run by minority communities.

“It was ironical that the Government tried to bring in cross- subsidy in the name of a consensus approach, knowing it will not stand in the court of law, leaving the State’s education sector itself at the receiving end.”

He said the State had never got such an irresponsible Education Minister in its history.

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