Cong will bite the dust in coming Assembly polls: AIADMK

Puducherry Jan 16 (PTI): The opposition AIADMK has chargedthe Congress government here with having let down farmers,fishermen, unemployed youth and downtrodden without addressingtheir problems and said they would suffer a crushing defeatin the coming assembly polls.

Speaking to reporters here,AIADMK Puducherry unit secretaryA Anbalagan MLA said people were keeping a close vigil on the''anti-people'' performance of the government and waiting tothrow them out of power. The polls would bring out''revolutionary and historic developments, he said.

Anbalagan also took strong exception against the governmentplan to outsource private agencies to provide manpower forvarious Group D posts in the government run Women and Childrenhospital at its new premises and demanded that all the postsbe filled only through employment exchanges.

He said his party would present a detailed memorandum soonto Lt Governor Dr Iqbal Singh seeking his intervention for adirective to the government to drop its move.

He charged the government with having shown favouritism andencouraging kickbacks in this plan and asked governmentEmployees Associations to register their protest over themove.