CPI leader rejects TVK ministers’ explanation on govt circular

CPI leader rejects TVK ministers’ explanation on govt circular

The Left parties, CPI, CPM and CPI (ML) have postponed their joint public rally in Tiruchi to Oct 15.

Veerapandian said the chief minister and ministers should direct officials, but alleged that the opposite was happening in Tamil Nadu . But the situation is upside down in Tamil Nadu,” he said at a joint press conference with CPM state secretary P Shanmugam. Veerapandian said the govt could proceed with the proposed exercise if it wished. But they will not be able to complete the survey in one lifetime,” he said. The chief minister and the ministers should direct bureaucrats; but the opposite is happening in Tamil Nadu, he said. Earlier reporting noted: “No,” Veerapandian said when asked whether the Left parties accepted the ministers’ explanation that the circulars had been issued by officials without their and the CM’s knowledge. It is upside down here (in Tamil Nadu),” Veerapandian said at a joint press meet with CPM state secretary P Shanmugam.

“This is not a govt run by officials. Under the Constitution, officials are servants of the people and the elected govt. It is the ministers and the chief minister, as representatives of the people, who should guide officials. “Let them conduct the survey in universities, from Oxford University to institutions in Tamil Nadu. Everywhere, professors and students support the Left. Officials are merely servants of the people and the elected govt, as per the Constitution. Officials should not guide the CM. Only the ministers and the CM, who are representatives of the people, should guide the officials.

Earlier reporting noted: “This is not a govt run by officials. Chennai: A day after a delegation of TVK ministers met Left party leaders and said they were unaware of the controversial circular directing Universities to monitor students affiliated with Left parties, CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Saturday rejected the explanation. Earlier reporting noted: CHENNAI: CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Saturday rejected the explanation given by TVK ministers on Friday that they were unaware of the controversial circular directing universities to monitor students affiliated to Left parties.