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CPI(M) lists steps to improve track record of the LDF

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Campaign against UPA government to be launched

Says 85 p.c. of promises in election manifesto have been kept
Plan to publicise Kerala government’s achievements

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has resolved to capitalise on the ideological clarity and the end to schism in its Kerala unit after the Kottayam State conference and the Coimbatore party Congress to focus on improving the track record of the LDF government.

In a statement issued after a three-day State committee meeting here on Saturday, the party laid out the contours of the direction the LDF government would take in the coming days. It said the State committee noted that 385 or 85 per cent of the 455 items in the party’s election manifesto had been fulfilled. Of these, 158 items, or 35.5 per cent had either been completed or were in an advanced stage of completion. It said the LDF government had taken several other developmental steps outside the election manifesto. The rest of the promises in the election manifesto could be easily fulfilled with better planning and effective functioning. The committee felt that the State government’s achievements had not got wide propaganda and sought urgent steps to address this shortcoming. Another important decision was to launch a massive awareness campaign against the UPA government’s “total failure in solving burning issues affecting the people such as price rise and the Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement.”

The party statement, however, did not mention the controversies that rocked the education sector relating to the Class VII social science textbook and the impasse in admissions to self-financing private professional institutions.

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