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Eviction will run its course: Achuthanandan

THODUPUZHA: The Left Democratic Front government will provide land and shelter to two lakh people in the next two years, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said.

Speaking at the inaugural session of the Idukki district conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) here on Thursday, Mr. Achuthanandan made a stout defence of the anti-encroachment drive in the State, especially at Munnar. The land reclaimed from the encroachers would be distributed among the landless poor and Adivasis, he said.

He reiterated the party’s resolve to complete the anti-encroachment drive at Munnar and said after completion of the campaign, the work on building a ‘modern Munnar’ would begin.

The Chief Minister called for the support of the district unit of the party, the Left and the progressive sections of society in the endeavour.

Mr. Achuthanandan said a section of the Church hierarchy was being misled on the issue of education policies of the government. This led to an impression that the government was moving ahead with anti-minority programmes in the education sector, he said.

The government had no plan to take over the administrative powers of managers of the minority managements, he said and added that the suspicion in the Muslim community in this regard was misplaced. “The government has no plan to stop religious education being imparted in madrassas,” he said.

The government had taken the initiative to hold talks with the Christian and the Nair Service Society (NSS) managements on the issues over which they had expressed reservations.

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