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Confident Chandy blames media, pooh poohs solar scam

Thiruvananthapuram: With general elections only weeks away, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has tried to give a clean chit to himself in the Rs.70 million solar scam, even as he slammed the media in the

India TV News Desk Published : Mar 17, 2014 10:02 IST, Updated : Mar 17, 2014 10:05 IST
Responding to the political challenge posed by the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghats, which triggered a stir in the hilly districts of Kerala like Idukki and Wayanad, Chandy said the government went out of the way to work out a solution.

This was something, he claimed, no other state affected by the findings of the green report had done.

The chief minister said the wooing of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), which quit the Left alliance after for over three decades, was not a case of political opportunism.

”We made it very clear to them (RSP) that there will be no talks with them until they exit LDF. We commenced talks with them after they formally announced their decision to come out.”

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