Don’t try to scare us, Chandy warns CPM

As agitating pro-Left students took a break on Friday Oommen Chandy warned the Opposition against trying to scare his government into inaction.

The Chief Minister asked the CPM leadership to introspect whether the agitation was the right recourse, especially when his ministry was just settling down. “Pictures of Left cadres ready with petrol bombs on college campuses have been there in most newspapers. You don’t need further evidence to guess what mode of agitation has been planned against the government,” Chandy said.

He said the Left was trying to blame mismanagement of self-financing medical colleges on his ministry after having failed to rein in the colleges in its reign in the past five years.

Chandy pooh-poohed the Left’s social justice slogan, citing the example of CPM-controlled Pariyaram Coope-rative Medical College. The college, he claimed, reneged on allotting government quote and ganged up with Inter-Church Council in approaching the high court.

“They have been hunting with the hounds and running with hares. Both CPM and self-financing college managements should realise they cannot move an inch with such unholy alliances. The government will not allow a compromise on this,” he said.

Claiming better management, Chandy said it was for the first time in the past five years that the government had got a favourable verdict on admissions in self-finance medical colleges.