Kunhalikutty, Muneer to quit party posts

Kozhikode, May 28 : Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Kerala General Secretary P K Kunhalikutty and Secretary M K Muneer would quit their posts in confirmity with one-man-one-post norm adopted by the party.

Talking to newspersons at Malappuram, Mr Kuhalikutty, inducted into Congress-led United Democratic Front government as Industries Minister, said he would quit the post soon to uphold the decision taken by the party a few months ago.

All other MLAs elected in the April 13 Assembly poll would also follow suit, he said.

Social Welfare Minister M K Muneer said he would also quit the post as per the party norm.

Talking at a meet the press programme organised by the Calicut Press club here, Mr Muneer said he would submit his resignation on the dierctive of the party.

The party had decided to maintain one man one party norm to enable elected members and office bearers to concentrate in their respective fields adequately.

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Kerala firm on ending child labour: Muneer

Kozhikode, May 28: The Kerala government was committed to eliminate child labour and forced begging in the state as soon as possible, Social Welfare and Panchayats Minister M K Muneer today said.

Talking at a meet-the-press programme organised by Calicut Press Club here, he said the government had recently convened a meeting of Social Welfare Board to chalk out ways and means to end the menace.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had expressed keen interest to end deployment of underprivileged kids, he said.

Stating that he was carefully studying the role of various departments under his Ministry, he said he would concentrate on proper utilisation of Central funds for the welfare of the people in the state.

Refuting the widely held notion that he got an unimportant portfolio, he said social welfare was a very important department which could do wonders by initiating steps for the uplift of marginalised sections of the society.

There are more than 90,000 panchayats and Kudumbashree Mission, a multi-faceted women-based participatory poverty eradication programme, under its purview, he said.

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