The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] successful Kerala connected Monday (September 22, 2025) sought to politically weaponise Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda’s praise for Kerala’s apical ranking successful the carnal prime of beingness scale against the Congress enactment successful the State.
CPI(M) State committee subordinate and General Education Minister V. Sivankutty “thanked” Mr. Gowda, a Congress leader, for “speaking the truth” astir Kerala.
Mr. Sivankutty said the Congress Minister’s praise for Kerala’s “stellar achievements” flew successful the look of the Opposition party’s “disheartening narrative” astir the State’s improvement nether 9 years of Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule.
Speaking astatine a gathering organised by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal, MP, successful Alappuzha past week, Mr. Gowda had said: “If quality resources is the astir indispensable assets and quality improvement the astir valued asset, past Kerala is fig one. Kerala leads the state successful wellness care, acquisition and quality development. In contrast, Gujarat ranks among the lowest successful the country. Kerala is simply a shining illustration for the full of India”.
Mr. Sivankutty said it was peculiarly gratifying for the CPI(M) that Mr. Gowda had held a reflector to Kerala’s ascendancy astatine a nationalist “MP’s merit awards” gathering organised by Mr. Venugopal.
Mr. Venugopal, on with Kerala Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan, is among the harshest critics of the LDF authorities successful the Congress successful the State.
In contrast, nationalist leaders person mostly stayed distant from dwelling connected provincial politics, fixed that the Congress-led INDIA bloc considers the CPI(M) a governmental chap traveller.
Notably, the Congress has repeatedly boycotted government-sponsored improvement conferences, terming the events predetermination stunts and governmental campaigning by proxy utilizing taxpayers’ wealth scrounged disconnected from the State’s bone-dry treasury.
Mr. Venugopal had precocious slammed the Global Ayyappa Sanghamam, supposedly for Sabarimala’s development, arsenic an election-year antic to woo Hindu votes.
He accused the authorities of “crying crocodile tears” for its “trespasses on” Sabarimala traditions and Ayyappa religion during the 2018 Save Sabarimala campaign.
Meanwhile, the CPI(M)‘s societal media handles person seized upon Mr. Gowda’s words to antagonistic the Congress leadership.
The CPI(M) has besides accused the Congress of “obsessively” turning its backmost connected improvement and “staying away” from Kerala’s protests against the Centre’s alleged trespasses connected fiscal federalism, including reducing the State’s stock from the divisible excavation of taxes, lowering its borrowing bounds and slashing grain, kerosene, wellness attraction and societal payment allocations.
