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Jacob blasts government

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Congress (Jacob) feels that it is to cover up its own ineptitude that the LDF government is blaming the Central government for everything even though it fully enjoyed all the benefits given by the Centre.

The party supremo T.M. Jacob, who was briefing presspersons about the political resolution adopted by the Charalkunnu camp here on Monday, said that the LDF’s misrule had become unbearable. The LDF, which had come to power by fooling the people through a manifesto containing lovely promises 20 months ago, was facing the people’s wrath now. Its rule was marked by skyrocketing prices, breakdown of law and order, rampant corruption, stunted growth, vindictive measures being implemented unilaterally in the educational sector in the name of reforms, sluggishness in the agricultural and industrial sectors, rising unemployment and the rampage of land mafias.

He charged the government, which had come to power by promising to bring down prices, with inaction even though the prices of essential commodities had gone up by 84 per cent. On the other side, the prices of agricultural produce of the State were crashing. According to the government’s own figures, 160 farmers had committed suicide till February 2007 because of the crisis in the agricultural sector. The Centre had sanctioned projects costing around Rs.20,000 crore at one go the State. But all of them were making slow progress because of the government’s inaction. The funds were not being used fully, Mr. Jacob said.

He said the government made the situation in the field of higher and professional education more complex. The CPI(M) and the government were trying to control or destroy the institutions of minorities, he added.

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