CPI (M) plea to preserve Bharathiyar's school

 The CPI (M) State committee has urged Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to take steps to prevent any attempt to sell the building and playground of Ettayapuram Raja Primary and Higher Secondary School where national poet Bharathiyar and Tamil scholar Somasundara Bharathiyar studied.

In his letter to the Chief Minister, CPI (M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said the government should take over the school.

This aided school is managed by the descendents of Ettaypuram Jameen.

Corruption in Commonwealth Games Organisation

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

 

The reported payment of big sums of money by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to an obscure British based company seems to be a case of high level corruption. The Organising Committee is reported to have paid around Rs. 1.68 crore (2,47,467 pound) to a company, A. M. Films. It is further alleged that this company is receiving 25,000 pounds every month.   More than Rs. 3 crore  has so far been paid to this company. The British government has already pointed out various irregularities in the contract with the company. 

 

It is imperative that the Central Government immediately order a high level investigation into this   contract and the transactions undertaken. It is shocking that such large-scale misuse of public funds has taken place in the name of the Commonwealth Games. The government must act expeditiously and those found guilty must be brought to book.