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‘Implement Sachar Commission report’

MANGALORE: Abdul Nasir Madani, chairman, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said here on Saturday that his party would extend its political presence in Karnataka and would set up a State committee in the next six months.

Stating that an ad-hoc committee would be set up within two months, Mr. Madani told presspersons that steps were being taken to re-establish the party in the State. The PDP had last contested the election for Ullal Assembly seat in 1995-96 with Ismail Shafi as its candidate. Mr. Madani expressed doubts on the prospects of the Union and State governments implementing the Sachar Committee recommendations. Terming the report as factual and beneficial for the minority community, Mr. Madani said governments had not shown the resolve to implement the commission’s recommendations. Mr. Madani had stopped here on his way to Kasargod to attend a PDP rally there.

Expressing scepticism on the Government’s ability to implement such reports, Mr. Madani said most of such reports ended up in debates in academic circles. Lauding the move by the Kerala Government to set up a State-level committee to monitor the implementation of Sachar Commission report, he said government announcements should be followed by action.

Parrying a question on his nearly a decade-long incarceration for his alleged involvement in the Coimbatore bomb blast case, Mr. Madani said: “I want to forget that chapter in my life. I do not want to conduct a post-mortem into the incident for it may create a bad situation. It may cause political turmoil or create a law and order situation”.

However, he termed his imprisonment as “political vendetta”.

On the political plans of his party, Mr. Madani said the PDP would organise a national-level social justice conference at Kochi on January 1, 2008. “About five lakh people, including 1,000 delegates from all over the country, will attend the conference. Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and other leaders are likely to attend it,” he said.

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