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Says Chief Minister should take action against Ministers Terms Industries Minister’s stand on the issue dubious THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee Vice-president Thalekunnil Basheer has said Minister for Industries Elamaram Karim and Minister for Revenue K.P. Rajendran have lost their moral right to continue in office in the context of the disclosures about their respective roles in the HMT land deal. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Basheer said Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan should stop playing dumb and take necessary steps to oust the Ministers. The CPI(M), by appointing a parallel party committee to examine the issue, had tacitly admitted to corruption and irregularities in the deal, though such a move was unheard of, he said. Inquiry reportThe high-level secretaries’ Committee had reported irregularities and corruption in the controversial deal. Right from the beginning, the Industries Minister’s stand on the issue was dubious and he had been insisting that the private investment project would go ahead even before the committee presented its findings, Mr. Basheer said. He said there were certain quarters in the government who continued to lend a helping hand to Xavy Mano Mathew to enable him to regularise the ownership of the Merchiston Estate by allowing him to pay land tax. Real estate baronsMr. Basheer said the free play of real estate barons who went on purchasing land indiscriminately posed a threat to the land holding pattern and agrarian structure of the State to the detriment of agriculturists, agriculture labourers. He also wanted a stop to the indiscriminate sale of land owned by Central Public Sector Undertakings that had been provided huge tracts of land for investment purposes decades ago.
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