Karnataka role model for Kerala: CM

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, APRIL 30. Karnataka has become a model for Kerala in the matter of economic development, though the latter boasts of a "Kerala model of development", and it has become an issue in the elections to the Kerala Assembly.

The Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, who returned to the City this morning after campaigning for the United Democratic Front candidates in the Kerala elections, said that the strides taken by Karnataka in information technology and biotechnology had caught the imagination of the people of Kerala. "I am surprised by it." Wherever he went, people wanted him to speak on IT and biotechnology and asked why Kerala, with 94 per cent literacy, was lagging behind in those fields. Mr. Krishna noted that the UDF had promised to lay emphasis on IT and biotechnology in its election manifesto.

The Chief Minister said that in the priorities of the Congress, the Kerala Assembly elections were important. The UDF was on the way to success in the elections and his two days of campaigning had confirmed it. The initial confusion had been overcome. He had met Mr. K. Karunakaran and Mr. Karthikeyan, deputy leader of the UDF, and spoken to Mr. A.K. Antony and Mr. Ramesh Chennithala.

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