PM Modi launches fiery attack on ruling and Opposition fronts in Kerala

Prime minister narendra Modi criticizes LDF and UDF in Kerala, promising that BJP will fight corruption and improve infrastructure in the State

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 15 sought to capitalise on the momentum from his back-to-back campaign forays into Kerala since January by delivering a series of fiery attacks against the ruling and the Opposition fronts in the State.

At a BJP rally at Kattakada in the Attingal Lok Sabha constituency, Mr. Modi accused the Left Democratic Front (LDF) of running Kerala to financial ruin and then blaming the Centre for its “self-inflicted bankruptcy.”

Mr. Modi said the LDF also falsely claimed credit for Central schemes and got rapped by the Supreme Court for poor tax administration and fiscal management.

Mr. Modi said “the LDF-UDF revolving door politics” would spell doom for Kerala. He cast the CPI(M) and the Congress as hives of nepotism and corruption. Both parties were allies shadowboxing as foes in Kerala. Their leaders lacked honesty and credibility, he said.

Mr. Modi spotlighted the financial fraud investigations against the “Chief Minister and his daughter” without naming them and “corruption” in CPI(M)-controlled cooperative banks.

Mr. Modi promised to return the money CPI(M)-controlled cooperative banks had “stolen” from ordinary depositors, most of whom were daily wage labourers, women, farmers, and non-resident Indians, by quickly monetising the confiscated assets of the wrongdoers.

He reiterated that CPI(M) apparatchiks used party-controlled cooperative banks to “cover the laundering of unaccounted money and hoarding of ill-gotten wealth.”