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PDP to launch Malabar Memorial

Kochi: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is launching a movement called ‘Malabar Memorial’ to address the region’s “backwardness and governmental neglect.”

At a news conference here, PDP chairman Abdul Nazir Maudany said Malabar lagged far behind other regions of the State in terms development, especially economic and educational. Malappuram district, whose educational levels were abysmal, suffered the most neglect, he said.

One political party (meaning the Muslim League) dominated the district all along and despite the fact that it held the Education portfolio whenever the UDF came to power, it could not do anything to lift Malappuram’s educational standards.

He said any party or organisation was welcome to join the Malabar Memorial movement.

Briefing on the party’s two-day leaders’ orientation camp held here, Mr. Maudany said the party would soon launch a trade union wing called People’s Trade Union Council and a student wing, Indian Students Federation.

He said the PDP would continue to offer its issue-based support to the LDF government, though it had certain reservations about the government’s approach to the marginalised people and the minorities.

Mr. Maudany said one of the reasons for the PDP’s support for the LDF in the last Assembly election was the hope that it would implement the Narendran Committee’s recommendations, but the LDF government was going the same way as the previous UDF government.

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