PDP to set up Karnataka committee within 2 months

Mangalore, Nov 17 (UNI) PDP Chairman Abdul Nasir Madani, who is on a statewide tour in Karnataka to strengthen the party, today said the State level Committee of the party would be constituted within two months.

Talking to newspersons at Ganjimata near Bajpe, Mr Madani on his way to Kasargod in Kerala, said the campaign for strengthening his party would be intensified after returning from Haj tour.

He said the party would also hold a national level Social Justice Conference at Kochi on January 1, 2008 and more than 1000 party workers from all over India would participate.

He said more than five lakh people were expected to attend the Conference, which would be addressed by Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, among others. The Conference was intended to bring together the backward class, dalits and minority sections of the society, he added.

Mr Madani, declining to comment on his arrest in Coimbatore and imprisonment from March 31, 1998 till August 2007, said he did not want to indulge in post-mortem of the incident. However, it was a ''political hidden agenda'', he added.

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