Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Chief Minister campaigns for LDF candidates in Kozhikode

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Thursday attended run events for Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidates successful Kozhikode district, stepping up his attacks against the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) portion seeking different word for his authorities to proceed its improvement initiatives.

Mr. Vijayan sought votes for the LDF candidates successful Beypore, Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode South, Kozhikode North, Vadakara, Kuttiyadi and Nadapuram astatine assorted venues.

The Chief Minister’s campaigning successful the territory began with the merchandise of the LDF’s manifesto for the Assembly polls astatine the territory bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] successful the morning. Senior leaders of the CPI(M) and the LDF accompanied him.

The manifesto focusses connected 60 programmes containing 950 proposals, including eradication of implicit poverty, hiking payment pension from ₹2,000 to ₹3,000 and a cosmopolitan wellness sum policy. Thereafter, addressing a property conference, helium supported the concerns of the number communities implicit the amendment to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. Mr. Vijayan said that the fears of the minorities were not misplaced arsenic the Act was being amended by the BJP, the governmental limb of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, for whom “Muslims and Christians are interior enemies.”

In Beypore, helium sought votes for Public Works Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas, who is seeking a 2nd word from there. Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav was 1 among the speakers astatine the event. In Kunnamangalam, Mr. Vijayan attended the run lawsuit of incumbent MLA P.T.A. Raheem, who is the LDF campaigner there.

At the nationalist lawsuit held astatine the Kozhikode formation successful the evening, the Chief Minister highlighted the improvement works taken up by his governments successful the past 10 years amid assorted challenges. Mr. Vijayan besides criticised the Congress-led UDF for not cooperating with the authorities successful its combat against the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre. The last run lawsuit for the time was held astatine Purameri.