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Security is high on Congress agenda

The two-day Congress CMs’ conference in Nainital is expected to focus primarily on internal security situation in the country.

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NEW DELHI: The two-day Congress Chief Ministers’ conference commencing on September 23 in Nainital is expected to focus primarily on agriculture and the internal security situation in the country.

The agenda for the party conference is likely to focus on how to get the agricultural sector up and running and to deliberate on the internal security situation in the country, the increase in the acts of terrorism and the threat posed by the Naxal movement.

There is serious concern in the Congress party over the sharp increase in the prices of food grains and the plight of the farmers. Hundreds of farmers have committed suicides in Maharashtra and AP, both Congress-ruled states.

The Congress leadership wants its state governments to go the extra mile in helping the farmers tide over the current crisis with relation to hardships faced in paying back their loans as well as ensuring that farmers get the maximum remuneration for their produce.

While the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is unlikely to be targeted, the Congress party certainly wants a clearer demarcation of priorities. “The agriculture minister is private-sector friendly, while the challenge in the agriculture sector lies in improving the Public Distribution System,” a senior Congress leader said.

Besides agriculture and the internal security situation, the two-day conference will focus on the strategy to be adopted in the states going to the polls in early 2007. Uttaranchal, Punjab, Manipur and UP go to polls in the first half of the year and they will be followed by Gujarat and Goa later in the year.

The conference will also provide an opportunity for the PM to bring on board chief ministers of border states like J&K, Assam and Punjab on his new policy of involving Pakistan in the fight against terrorism.

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