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Nainital, Uttaranchal, Sep 22 An action plan to check the
growing trend of farmers' suicides and to tackle the menace of
terrorists and naxalite activities in various parts of the country
is likely to be chalked out in the two-day Chief Ministers' Conclave
of the Congress-ruled States beginning here tomorrow.
The Conclave, the seventh in the series, will review the steps
taken by the Congress-ruled States to deal with the problems of
farmers forcing them to commit suicide and the measures taken by them
to curb the menace of insurgency and naxalites.
To be inaugurated by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the
Conclave will be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the
Chief
Ministers of 14 Congress-ruled States, besides the AICC General
Secretaries incharge of the various States.
Union Minister for Finance P Chidambaram and Home Minister
Shivraj Patil will also interact with the Chief Ministers at the
Conclave. Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee,who was also scheduled
to attend the Conclave, is unable to do so as he will be away in New
York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting where he will
represent the
Prime Minister.
Though the Conclave will be focused on agriculture, Union
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has not been invited as he is not
from the Congress. However, his deputy, Union Minister of State for
Agriculture Kanti Lal Bhuria is likely to be present.
The Congress Chief Ministers will be hard put to explain to the
party leadership the reasons for their failure in not doing enough
to solve the problems of the farmers leading to several cases of
suicide as also their inability to put an end to the terrorist and
naxalite activities.
Maharashtra being the worst affected States as regards farmers'
suicides and terrorist activities, followed by Andhra Pradesh, the
spotlight will be on the Chief Ministers of the two States, Vilasrao
Deshmukh and Rajshekhar Reddy, both of whom will have to explain the
causes for the prevailing two phenomenons.
The Conclave is also likely to chalk out a strategy for the
forthcoming Assembly elections in four states of Uttaranchal, Punjab,
Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, three of which are Congress-ruled States. |
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