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100-day programme soon

Brainstorming: UDF leaders getting ready for a meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. From left: KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, UDF convener P.P. Thankachan, Industries Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty, Finance Minister K.M. Mani (standing), and SJ(D) leaderM.P. Veerendrakumar.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said the next Cabinet meeting, scheduled on June 1, will draw up a 100-day programme for the United Democratic Front (UDF) government.

Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the UDF liaison committee here on Monday, he said all members of the Cabinet were now holding discussions with the officials of the departments allotted to them to identify actions to be taken on a priority basis by the new government. Mr. Chandy said the government would reconstitute all corporations and boards in the State before August 18.

P.P. Thankachan, convener of the UDF, said the usual practice when a new government assumed office was for the people holding all politically appointed posts under the previous government to submit their resignations. Political decency demanded it. But the chairpersons of several corporations and boards under the government were yet to resign, although 12 days had elapsed since the new government had assumed office. Finance Minister K.M. Mani, who too addressed the press conference, took exception to Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan's reported comment that “the Opposition would not allow Mr. Chandy to move even inch as the Chief Minister.” Mr. Mani said only someone who had no respect for the democratic process would make such a comment. The UDF government would not wilt under such threats, he added.

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala said that the UDF, when the Left Democratic Front (LDF) came to power in the State in 2006, had given the government a grace period of 100 days to fall into the groove. But the present Opposition was bent on attacking the government from day one, he said.

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