Elappully panchayat accused of playing vote bank politics

The Anti-Brewery Agitation Council astatine Elappully has accused the Elappully grama panchayat governing assembly of playing ballot slope authorities successful the brewery issue.

The agitation assembly chairperson P.A. Pouran and wide convener Pudussery Sreenivasan said successful Palakkad connected Saturday that the governing assembly members were trying to destabilise the ongoing agitation against the projected brewery astatine Elappully.

They said the panchayat committee members were trying to weaken the agitation against the brewery by ignoring the interventions of the Congress territory and State leaders. “They are trying to marque the anti-brewery agitation arsenic an anti-liquor protest,” said Mr. Sreenivasan.

They said the agitation assembly would not cooperate with a protestation to beryllium held astatine Elappully nether the panchayat board’s enactment connected Monday.