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Vaidyanathan panel: CPI told to clarify stand

Thiruvananthapuram: The pro-Congress Sahakharna Janathipathiya Vedi has criticised the State government for its refusal to implement the Central package for the cooperative sector based on the Vaidyanathan Committee recommendations. The forum has also asked the Communist Party of India (CPI), the second largest constituent in the Left Democratic Front (LDF), to clarify its stand on the issue.

A State committee meeting of the Vedi here said the pro-CPI All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), one of the major unions in the banking sector, had been clamouring for the implementation of the Central package and had even written to the Chief Ministers of all States. However, the CPI’s State leadership and its ministers in the State Cabinet were silent about it. “We would like to know whether the CPI leadership were in agreement to the Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran’s position on this issue,” Vedi chairman Karakulam Krishna Pillai said in a statement on Friday.

The Vedi said the State stood to lose Rs.1,000 crore under the Central package owing to the Government’s refusal. Most of the State governments had already signed memoranda of understanding with the Centre to become eligible for the first tranche of short term assistance. Many had initiated discussions for the second tranche envisaging long-term assistance. The State government’s negative stand was unjustified, the statement said. According to the Vedi’s evaluation, the various steps taken by the Cooperation Minister would undermine the sector.

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