Government trying to divert attention

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP state president V Muralidharan said that BJP

leaders who came to enquire about the attack on mediapersons at LMS

compound here the other day, were listed as accused in a case alleging

that they had unleashed violence at the CSI Bishop’s House to create

communal tension in the state. He told reporters here on Saturday that

the government’s attempt was to divert attention from the attack on

mediapersons.He pointed out that many leaders from both the ruling

and Opposition parties had arrived at the scene of the attack on

mediapersons by  police and miscreants near the CSI Bishop’s House.

However, the  police have included only the BJP leaders as accused in

the case.  He said the state council meeting of the party had

discussed the UDF Government’s tilt towards the minorities even from the

initial days of its rule. The state budget did not focus on the

development of the state. Instead it favoured Kerala Congress pockets

and Muslim League  strongholds for implementing the projects. He

said the state council meeting was of the view that the budget proposal

to permit five percent of the plantations to be used for tourism

purposes would lead to large-scale conversion of plantation land. It

would benefit only the estate owners. It would also lead to the

sabotaging of the Land Reforms Act.  The move is also against the spirit

of land reforms, he said.He said that the BJP would organise

agitations against corruption and price rise ahead of the Parliament

march planned by Yuva Morcha scheduled on August 9. Bharathiya Mahila

Morcha would lead the campaign against rising atrocities against women.

Agitations will be strengthened against the policies of self-financing

college managements, he said.He said the government was not sincere

in its efforts to evict the encorachers from Munnar and Orange farm at 

Nelliyamapathy. Large-scale encroachment was taking place in 

Marthandam Kayal under the leadership of an MLA in Kuttanad, he alleged.