UDF presents united face on scholarship issue

CPI(M) has to balance the Christian and Muslim interests in the LDF

The United Democratic Front (UDF) on Sunday scrambled to stymie speculation that the Congress-led coalition was seriously divided over the government’s 2011 population census based restructuring of the merit-cum-means scholarship for needy and educationally backward minority community students. The issue came into the political spotlight after the IUML corrected Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan’s remark that the amended award had “not caused any loss” to the Muslim community.