district conference of the CITU would be held at Kanjirappally from November 8 to 11. According to CITU Kottayam District Secretary K P Sugunan, the conference was part of the State conference to be held at Thrissur in January 2010 and national conference in Punjab in March 2010. CPI(M) District Secretary K J Thomas, CITU State General Secretary M M Lawrence, LDF Convener Vaikom Viswan, Industries...
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All India Cooperative Week celebrations would be held at Mammen Mappillai hall here on November 14.Addressing a news conference here, Reception Committee Working Chairman V N Vasavan, MLA, said Kerala Cooperative Minister G Sudhakaran will inaugurate the celebration. The programmes would be held with great pomp and in accordance with the tradition of Kottayam, he said, adding seminar, cultural programs,...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala saw heavypolling of around 70% in the three assembly constituencies of Kannur, Ernakulamand Alappuzha in largely peaceful by-polls Saturday.Though thefinal percentage is to be officially announced, Kannur recorded the maximumturnout. According to district collector P.B. Salim, the final tally in Kannurwould be between 75 and 80%.The elections werenecessitated after Congress...
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Dismissing theargument that the ruling LDF had suffered a setback in the recent by-polls tothree assembly segments in Kerala, Front convenor Vaikom Viswan claimed they hadgarnered more votes than what they got in the last Lok Sabha polls."People have spoken against the UPA government's policies. Unlessand until the UPA changes the policies, we will not be supporting them," hesaid, addressing reporters...
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Democratic Front (LDF) convener Vaikom Viswan has said the LDF government had nothing to hide about the Centre-State communication over the Indo-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA).Addressing a meet-the-press programme here on Wednesday, Mr. Viswan citing the Congress claim that Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma had written to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan allaying the State’s fears over the impact...
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Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener Vaikom Viswan has said the LDF is putting up a united fight in the byelections as all those sections who opposed it during the Lok Sabha elections have now come closer to the front.Speaking at a ‘meet-the-press’ programme organised by the Press Club here on Thursday, Mr. Viswan said the United Democratic Front (UDF) had politically utilised the weakness in the LDF...
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Coming down heavily on the Centre, Left Democratic Front (LDF) convenor Vaikom Viswan today said the Centre signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the 10 ASEAN countries without taking Parliament into confidence.Speaking to newspesons here, Mr Viswam alleged that '' the Centre's stand that the inclusion of the negative list would be thought about was unacceptable as the pact would affect the interests...
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byelection results in Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha Assembly constituencies in no way indicate any disaffection among the people of the State towards the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, according to Vaikom Viswan, convener of the front.He was addressing a press conference here on Monday after an LDF State committee meeting, which discussed the byelection results. Mr. Viswan said that the...
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A meeting of the State secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held here on Friday.The meeting, held at the Azhikodan Mandiram, the party district committee office here, assumed significance in view of the byelection in the three Assembly constituencies, including the Kannur Assembly constituency, on November 7. CPI(M) State secretary and Polit Bureau (PB) member Pinarayi Vijayan,...
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LDF convener Vaikom Viswan has said that the faith of people in the ruling front has increased after the last Lok Sabha elections.Addressing a press conference here, he said the front was facing the electorate cohesively in all the three constituencies where Assembly bypolls would be held next month.It was in contrast to the situation that existed during the last elections when the front had faced...
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