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Wipe out corruption: CPI (M)

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TAMBARAM: While welcoming the people-friendly welfare measures being implemented in the State, N.Varadarajan, State secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Sunday said the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam should wipe out corruption in many areas, including welfare schemes.

Addressing a meeting in the suburban Pozhichalur, where he kick-started a campaign for the party’s all-India conference to be held in Coimbatore between March 29 and April 3, Mr. Varadarajan said that many schemes being implemented by the State Government suffered from corruption. “The DMK has power in the State and Central governments and it must take the responsibility in eliminating corruption in all places,” the party leader said.

Stating that while his party would support schemes which benefited the people, they would never hesitate to point out to the undemocratic activities in Tamil Nadu, Mr. Varadarajan said.

Preventing people from staging peaceful demonstrations and forming trade unions, both of which were a fundamental right of the people, was unjust and unfair. Soon, a committee comprising State-level leaders of his party would be meeting Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to brief him about those “unjust, unfair and undemocratic” aspects of governance, he said.

Stating that communal harmony was important and the DMK Government, too, had attached a lot of importance to it, Mr. Varadarajan pointed out that the Sethu Samudram project had come to a grinding halt. It was the responsibility of the DMK to expedite the project and complete it.

The party would be staging a massive demonstration in Tuticorin on February 23, urging the State and Central Governments to finish the much-needed project at the earliest, he said.

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