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A time aft Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a high-pitch run for the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) here, the Congress connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) challenged his claims, terming them “far from reality”.
District Congress Committee (DCC) president Muhammed Shiyas told the media present that the Chief Minister was trying to whitewash the LDF which had failed to code basal infrastructure issues successful the metropolis during its five-year governance of the Kochi Corporation.
“The Chief Minister claimed that Operation Breakthrough, carried retired to resoluteness waterlogging successful the metropolis astatine a outgo of ₹25 crore, was a immense success. However, each large roads successful the metropolis were getting submerged successful the caller rains,” Mr. Shiyas said.
Countering the Chief Minister’s committedness of a 3rd roll-on roll-off service, the Congress person said the LDF authorities had undermined the task successfully implemented by the United Democratic Front (UDF) by not paying for yearly maintenance. “Frequent disruptions successful services owed to method glitches person besides rendered the work ineffective,” helium said.
He besides questioned the Chief Minister’s claims of resolving postulation snarls with astute roads. “Most roads successful the metropolis stay successful shambles. The contented has lone worsened. No wealth has been spent connected gathering caller roads and overbridges. Work connected the 2nd signifier of the Kochi metro towards Infopark is moving astatine a snail’s pace. Steps for the improvement of the Thammanam–Pulleppady roadworthy person not made immoderate progress,” Mr. Shiyas said.
Shiyas termed the LDF regularisation successful the Corporation a “regime of corruption”. Responding to Mayor M. Anilkumar’s allegation that the Congress had an unholy nexus with the BJP successful respective wards of the Corporation, the DCC main said the CPI(M) was peddling lies retired of fearfulness of an electoral setback. “The CPI(M) is acrophobic of contesting connected its ain awesome successful galore areas successful the district,” Mr. Shiyas said, calling it a maneuver to unafraid BJP and SDPI votes.
