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Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala has described the allegations of a nexus betwixt the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful the ongoing predetermination arsenic absurd.
“It’s absurd due to the fact that Narendra Modi wants a Congress-mukt Bharat and Pinarayi Vijayan wants the continuance of his government. Both person a communal aim,” Mr. Chennithala, permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) campaigner from Haripad, said successful an interrogation with The Hindu.
Mr. Chennithala also alleged that the Communist Party of India [CPI(M)] and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had colluded in 2021 as well, which resulted successful the re-election of the Left beforehand government. He claimed that allegations against the Congress were being made to cover up this collusion. He added that the Congress’s arch-rival is the BJP nationally, portion successful Kerala its main rival is the CPI(M).
The Congress held wide consultations earlier promising to motorboat a ministry for the elderly, helium said. “We are talking astir the metallic economy, arsenic the situation of the State’s rapidly ageing colonisation tin beryllium converted into opportunities. Apart from this, the five guarantees offered by the enactment successful other States volition besides beryllium implemented successful Kerala,” Mr. Chennithala added.
He dismissed disapproval of the Oommen Chandy government in 2011 regarding overdue payment pensions and said the UDF had a program to rise the payment pension to ₹3,000 if voted to power.
Sabarimala remains a large canvass contented for the UDF. “The pilgrims are wounded due to the fact that of the golden theft, and the golden has not been recovered yet. The accused person received bail and the authorities is protecting them. The CPI(M) has not taken action against the enactment leaders accused successful the case. Moreover, the State authorities has not changed its stance connected the contented of women of each property groups entering the Sabarimala temple. We volition exposure them earlier the people,” Mr. Chennithala said.
He said the State’s wellness and acquisition sectors, which were the cornerstones of the famed Kerala Model, had degenerated during the past 10 years of LDF rule. He added that the authorities had done thing to forestall the exodus of the younker from the State.
Mr. Chennithala said immoderate determination connected who would pb the Cabinet if the UDF came to powerfulness would beryllium taken by the Congress precocious command.
When asked astir the Congress’s unfulfilled committedness of constructing houses for the victims of the Wayanad landslides, helium said the State government had promised onshore for the same, but it was not provided. “We person now purchased land and the instauration was laid by Rahul Gandhi. We are in the process of constructing the houses; it volition beryllium done connected time,” helium said.
Mr. Chennithala alleged a scam in the government’s program to grant the declaration for the purchase of a ‘uniform software’ for superior agriculture cooperative recognition nine branches from the Kerala Dinesh Beedi Workers’ Central Cooperative Society Ltd. He said the Kerala High Court had halted it till May.
