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A bid to lower CMs' importance: CPI(M)

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI July 28. Citing lack of space for not inviting Chief Ministers to the swearing-in ceremony of the President amounts to lowering their importance, the CPI(M) said today.

Concurring with the view that it was wrong not to have invited the Chief Ministers, the State secretary, N. Varadarajan, in a statement, asked whether the son of the Reliance Chairman, the late Dhirubhai Ambani, attended the ceremony after he sought an invitation.

The DK general secretary, K. Veeramani, welcoming the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa's decision to take the issue of Chief Ministers not being invited to the ceremony to the people's court rather than burying it, said the concern shown by the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister, in seeking her support for the Vice-President candidature could also have been exhibited during the swearing-in, especially as the President was from Tamil Nadu and also since the State was being ruled by a non-NDA party.

Our Madurai Staff Reporter reports:

``I fully support the views expressed by the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi,'' the PMK founder, S. Ramadoss, told presspersons in Madurai on the issue of Ms. Jayalalithaa having been left out of the swearing-in ceremony.

Our Tiruchi Staff Reporter reports:

The State Janata Dal secretary, K. John Moses commended Ms. Jayalalithaa and Mr. Karunanidhi for speaking with one voice on the issue, and called upon them to maintain this tempo for pressuring the Centre to solve the Cauvery tangle.

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