Cong to set up ward panels for polls

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 6. The KPCC(I) has set the ball for the panchayat elections rolling.

A leaders' meeting of the party held here today decided to set up ward-level committees for the elections. The meeting, attended by KPCC(I) office-bearers and district presidents with the KPCC(I) president, Mr. Thennala Balakrishna Pillai, in the chair, resolved to convene ward- level meetings and constitute 21-member committees before May 20. The committees would have a president, two vice-presidents, three secretaries, a treasurer and other office-bearers.

The meeting decided to organise district and constituency- level meetings to take up work connected with the panchayat elections including the inclusion of names in voters' lists.

The district-level meetings would be held from May 12 to 14 and the constituency-level meetings from May 14 to 16.

The Congress(I) will observe the fourth anniversary day of the Government falling on May 20 as `black day'. It will hoist black flags all over the State, conduct meetings to apprise the people of the Government's ``misdeeds and corruption'', take out torchlight processions and organise dharnas that day. The meeting decided to set up a sub-committee for preparing leaflets about the failure, corruption and misdeeds of the Government.

The meeting felt that the closing down of 3,000-odd unaided schools would affect the future of many students and teachers. It asked the Government to find an urgent solution to the problem. It also urged the Government not to enact the proposed Forest Ordinance before removing the concern of the farmers over it.

It also resolved to observe the death anniversaries of Rajiv Gandhi falling on May 21 and of Jawaharlal Nehru on May 27 appropriately.

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