Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan flays Rahul Gandhi over 'soft Hindutva' politics, bats for regional alliances to defeat BJP

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the people and the Congress workers have lost faith in the Congress, adding "For whatever reason, we cannot see Congress as an alternative force to BJP."

Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over "soft Hindutva" politics and asserted the need for regional alliances to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was speaking at the inaugural event of the CPI(M) conference at the Ernakulam district conference. He said, "The idea of a Hindu government put forward by Rahul Gandhi at the Jaipur rally is part of the soft Hindutva politics that has already been adopted by Congress."

"Congress has always taken a Hindutva stance. There is also a policy of communal appeasement that is part of it. Rahul Gandhi`s speech is reassuring that. One by one, the Congress leaders are now leading the BJP as part of an earlier policy," added Vijayan.

Vijayan said that the people and the Congress workers have lost faith in the Congress, adding "For whatever reason, we cannot see Congress as an alternative force to BJP."