Gowda flays LDF's law and order record

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 3. The former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (S) president, Mr. Deve Gowda, today expressed his dissatisfaction at the LDF Government's law and order record and the front's indirect ties with the Indian National Front (INL).

However, Mr. Gowda, who was speaking at a `Meet-the- Press' programme organised by the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club, made it clear that his party had played along because it did not want to strain the intra-party relations in the LDF. With regard to the INL ties, he said the ties were the outcome of a minimum programme agreed to by the LDF. ``If the CPI(M), the big brother in the LDF, felt that the INL ties would not affect its credibility and if the other LDF partners accepted it, the Janata Dal did not have any reservations on the issue,'' he observed.

Mr. Gowda took a cautious position on the two issues as was evident from his statement that he did not want to elaborate on the LDF's record on the law and order front. But he was apprehensive about the chances of fundamentalist and communal forces creating law-and-order problems in Kerala and other part of the country.

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