The Hindu : `Sack Rangasamy Govt. for inept handling of issues'

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Sunday, Sep 22, 2002

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`Sack Rangasamy Govt. for inept handling of issues'

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry Sept. 21. The Pondicherry State AIADMK Committee Secretary, K. Natarajan, has called upon the Lieutenant Governor, K.R. Malkani, to sack the Rangasamy-led Congress Ministry for its ``inept handling'' of issues.

Addressing newsmen at the party headquarters here today, Mr. Natarajan said the Government had failed to solve many problems. The breakfast scheme for children had run into rough weather because of ``differences'' within the Congress. The grievances of government employees were yet to be redressed.

He alleged that the Government had failed the ryots of Karaikal region on the Cauvery issue. The Ministry should convene an all-party meeting to evolve an action plan to protect the rights of Karaikal ryots. He charged the Karnataka Government with violating the directives of the Supreme Court and the Cauvery River Authority in releasing water to the Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry basins.

On the Tagore Arts College issue, he urged the Government to take stringent action against students indulging in ragging.

Mr. Natarajan said the absence of two Ministers at a meeting convened by the Chief Minister on Friday to review the implementation of schemes showed that all was not well in the Cabinet.

He said the Chief Minister and the Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan, had been at loggerheads since last few months. When the ``operation encroachment'' was launched, Mr. Lakshminarayanan had come down on the Chief Minister's action of restoring the spaces to vendors inside the market here. Now on the dissolution of the Board of Milk Producers Union, the Minister had complimented the directors for `their contribution to the breakfast scheme'.

The disjointed style of functioning of the Government had affected the administration. Hence, there was every valid reason to issue marching orders to the Ministry here, Mr. Natarajan said.

He wanted bread and milk be supplied to the children in the evening instead of morning. He demanded the Government to make public the report on ``lapses'' in the breakfast scheme.

The AIADMK legislator, A. Anbalagan, was also present.

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