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Ministers cutting deals with mafia gangs, says Kunhalikutty

Staff Reporter

Says people of the State are fed up with LDF rule

Tightening scrutiny: IUML State general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty arriving to address a rally of the Muslim Youth League in Malappuram on Wednesday.

MALAPPURAM: Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) State general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty has charged the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Ministry with brokering deals with mafia gangs of various hues. Addressing a rally taken out by the Muslim Youth League here on Wednesday, Mr. Kunhalikutty alleged that almost all Ministers in the LDF Cabinet were brokers of some deals with mafia gangs.

He said the people in the State were fed up with the mafia rule. Mafia connections with the Ministers have become so egregious as to fetch shame for the State, he said. The IUML leader alleged that the Ministers were protecting th mafia gangs.

Muslim Youth League district president P.A. Salam presided over the rally. The Youth League took out the rally as part of strengthening its stir against the LDF rule in the State.

Youth League leaders said that the LDF government, which has been ruling the State for the last two years, had failed miserably in all fronts.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which leads the government, has deviated from its track of standing for the working class, and has fallen into the track of corruption and factionalism, they said.

Youth League leaders said the Ministers of various LDF constituents were vying with each other in corruption. Even when the people were suffering owing to spiralling prices in the State, criminals and mafia gangs were controlling the government, they said.

The Youth League accused the LDF of destroying peace and law and order in the State. It charged the CPI(M) with leading a political vendetta by conducting a spree of killings in Kannur. According to Youth League leaders, the CPI(M) was protecting criminals to use them against political opponents.

Hundreds of youth took part in the march, which began from Kizhakkethala and concluded in front of the Collectorate.

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