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Absence from meet not deliberate: VS

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan scotched speculation that he had deliberately kept off from the district conference of the CPI(M) in Alappuzha on Friday.

Talking to presspersons after a Cabinet meeting, the Chief Minister said he had skipped the delegates’ conference in Alappuzha for want of time. He would be attending the conference later on, including the valedictory session.

Mr. Achuthanandan recalled that he had been very late to address an all-India conference of doctors in Kochi on Thursday as his flight was delayed by four-and-a-half hours. So, he had stayed back in Kochi. If he had gone to Alappuzha on Friday and sat through the delegates’ session, he would have been late for the Cabinet meeting in the afternoon.

The Chief Minister dismissed senior Congress leader K. Karunakaran’s claim that he had a scheme that could have checked the price rise. Mr. Karunakaran had never demonstrated any effective scheme to check price rise when he was the Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. If he had such a scheme, he should have presented it before the people in a convincing manner. As an experienced leader from the Opposition, he was also duty-bound to do so.

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