: As part of CPI(M) led LDF Opposition state-wide plan to intensify agitation against the Congress led UDF government in Kerala, LDF youth wing leaders began an indefinite fast in front of the secretariat here today.
Inaugurating the agitation, CPI-M veteran and opposition leader in the assembly V S Achuthanandan lashed out at the government and said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's rule has set a record for 'corruption and inefficiency'.
It was a government that has forgotten the responsibility to the people, he said that it had made people's lives more miserable by imposing new tax rates on many items.
Achuthanandan alleged that though the government had imposed a ban on recruitment, it was making appointments indirectly.
CPI state secretary Panniyan Raveendran and Congress(S) leader Ramachandran Kadanapally were among those spoke.
Some of the main demands of youth wing leaders are withdrawal of the recuritment ban, immediate appointments to those who have received call letter from Public Service Commission, roll back the 'unjustified' new tax rate and abandon the plan to raise the retirement age of government staff.
