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CPI(M) trying to sabotage package: Chennithala

ALAPPUZHA: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala has accused the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) of attempting to sabotage the Rs.1,840-crore M.S. Swaminathan package announced by the Union government for Kuttanad. He has said the CPI(M) will have to give up its resistance to mechanisation in the agriculture sector.

He was speaking after the foundation laying ceremony of Nehru Bhavan, District Congress Committee’s new office complex, here on Wednesday.

Mr. Chennithala said the Union government had prepared the ground for a second agricultural revolution with the Kuttanad package.

However, the CPI(M)-led State government was going all out to disrupt the momentum.

He said farmers had seen the “real colours of the CPI(M) when the so-called pro-farmers’ party sold off 154 acres of surplus land to resort groups” in the R-Block of Kuttanad. The farmers had lost complete faith in the CPI(M) after it “masterminded” the current damage in Kuttanad, he alleged.

The Congress will not allow the CPI(M) to turn Kuttanad into a milch cow and exploit the hapless farmers there, he said.

He accused the CPI(M) of taking Kerala back to the days of the ‘cell regime’ by imposing unjustified fines on farmers for using harvest machines. The CPI(M) had opposed the advent of the tractor and the computer, but was later forced to change its stance. The resistance to the harvest machine too will have to change, he said.

A.A. Shukoor, president of the District Congress Committee, C.R. Jayaprakash, district chairman of the United Democratic Front, K.C. Venugopal, MLA, and others spoke.

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