Medha Patkar was in Kerala today. She praised A K Antony, India’s present defence minister and Kerala’s former chief minister. She said that Antony was trying to bring development to Kerala without harming the environment. Antony is an honest politician. No, I don’t mean any irony like the one spoken by Shakespeare’s Brutus about Mark Antony of the ancient Rome (Sonia Gandhi’s Italy). Yesterday A K Antony criticised the Congress government in Kerala for scuttling many of the progressive measures that the Central government could have done for Kerala. He said clearly that he was able to do much more for Kerala when the Left govt was ruling in Kerala than now when the Congress govt is ruling. He said he has no courage now, when the Congress govt is in power, to bring industries to Kerala. He said that the Left govt had cooperated more with him. He became emotional mentioning the Left leaders like V S Achuthanandan (former chief minister) and Elamaram Kareem (minist
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