'Pondy Cabinet expansion shortly'

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, APRIL 3. The general secretary of the Pondicherry Pradesh Congress(I) Committee and former Education Minister, Mr. A. Gandhiraj, said here today that the expansion of the Ministry to induct four ministers to make the ministry a six-member cabinet would be done in the next few days.

Addressing a press conference Mr. Gandhiraj said that the expansion would take place without any hitch.

He said that the new government would not let anyone escape the clutches of law. When his attention was drawn to the earlier plea of the Congress(I) when it was in the Opposition that steps should be taken by the Administration against those who encouraged excess admission of students in privately managed B.Ed college in the Union Territory, he said whoever was found to have committed violation of norms of admission would face the consequence. He said that the complaints from affected students would also be looked into.

He said that the welfare of all sections of people would be taken care of by the new government.

Mr. Gandhiraj said that leaders of Congress(I), the AIADMK, the TMC, the CPI, the CPI(M) and the fraternal parties would meet at the Congress(I) party office here tomorrow to finalise the date of agitation against the hike effected by the Centre in prices of cooking gas, kerosene and also various anti-people measures announced in the Union budget.

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