CUDDALORE:
The Communist Party of India will launch a continuous agitation for the restoration of democracy in Tamil Nadu on August 9, according to D. Pandian, State secretary of the party.
The modalities would be drawn in the State committee meeting to be held from July 31 to August 2 in which A.B. Bardhan, CPI general secretary, would participate, Mr. Pandian told reporters here on Friday. He further said that the agitation would draw the attention of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government to its unfulfilled election promise of issuing house site pattas to the homeless and cultivable lands to the landless farmers.
As for the Chidambaram Natarajar temple issue, Mr Pandian said Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's recent utterances were inconsistent with his earlier stand. The Chief Minister had been emphatic about the manner of death of Saivite saint Nandanar all along but was now raising doubts about the latter's existence. Mr Pandian said that the wall erected at the point where Nandanar entered the temple was a standing testimony to the ugly face of untouchability.
Therefore, the farmers' wing of the CPI would take out a rally at Chidambaram on August 11 to urge the government to remove the wall. About the arrest of MDMK general secretary Vaiko, Mr. Pandian said it was ironical that when Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to Tirupati he was given a red carpet welcome whereas Mr Vaiko, who sought the democratic rights of Sri Lankan Tamils, was sent to the jail. Mr. Pandian said that when the four oil companies — the ONGC, BPL, HPL and the IOC — had figured in the top 15 companies of the Fortune magazine, the stand of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that these companies were in the red would not wash.
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