Congress comes down on LDF over move to join PM-SHRI scheme

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The Congress has travel down connected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities successful Kerala for agreeing to articulation the Centre’s PM-SHRI scheme, claiming that it is portion of a bid of compromises reached betwixt the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

All-India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput (organisation) K.C. Venugopal told the media present connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) that covering up of an Enforcement Directorate announcement connected Vivek T., the lad of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and deferring of the SNC-Lavalin corruption lawsuit successful the Supreme Court aggregate times were besides portion of the compromise. He was present to unfastened ‘Sit to win’, a one-day campy organised for enactment functionaries up of the section assemblage polls.

He alleged that the CPI(M) was deviating from its professed principles by supporting the PM-SHRI scheme. Mr. Venugopal refuted the allegations that Congress-led State governments had besides implemented it, pointing retired that it was the BJP-led authorities which launched it successful Karnataka successful 2021. Similar was the lawsuit successful Telangana. The Congress would ne'er hold with the National Education Policy done which Sangh Parivar docket had been inserted successful the syllabus for acquisition institutions. The Union authorities was of the presumption that the students request not larn astir Mahatma Gandhi, but should survey astir his assassin, Nathuram Godse. “Is the ₹1,400 crore successful Central funds being released a bribe to instrumentality specified a syllabus successful the State? The CPI(M) should explicate to the radical wherefore it is going up with the strategy contempt absorption from the CPI,” helium said.

Meanwhile, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Sunny Joseph demanded that the State authorities support distant from bowing down earlier the BJP’s governmental agenda. He told the media present that funds for the country’s advancement should not travel with conditions. These funds were sourced from the taxpayers’ money. It was the close of the radical to get them and determination was nary spot for riders there. Mr. Joseph besides expressed doubts if the CPI would instrumentality to its absorption to the PM-SHRI scheme. He claimed that the discord successful the LDF was evident and the Congress was not definite if the CPI was stern connected its position.

Published - October 22, 2025 08:35 p.m. IST

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