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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has slammed his Telangana counterpart, Revanth Reddy, for “disparaging the radical of Kerala” by broadcasting “misinformed and slanderous” comments astir the State.”
At a run code successful Thiruvananthapuram recently, Mr. Reddy had borrowed a fashionable enactment from a Malayalam blockbuster Narasimham starring Mohanlal — “Nee po mone Dinesha” – to archer Mr Vijayan, somewhat dismissively, that the latter’s “expiry day has passed and clip is over”. Mr Reddy besides stated that Kerala was a State successful decline, plagued by corruption, administrative inefficiency and nepotism.
In a station connected Facebook and X connected Friday, Mr Vijayan riposted that the NITI Aayog, India’s apex argumentation deliberation tank, ranked Kerala arsenic the slightest corrupt State successful the state and Telangana, the sixth astir graft-ridden State. Mr Vijayan stated that NITI Aayog ranked Kerala archetypal successful the National Sustainable Development Index (2023-24) with 79 points and Telangana sixth.
Mr Vijayan noted that NITI Aayog’s nationalist multidimensional poorness scale ranked Kerala arsenic the slightest poverty-affected State successful the state (0.55 per cent). In contrast, NITI Ayog has stated that an estimated 5.88 per cent of the Telangana colonisation suffered crushing poverty.
Telangana CM Shri Revanth Reddy's caller disparaging remarks astir Kerala are wholly baseless. It is ironic that idiosyncratic who runs bulldozers implicit the homes of the mediocre successful his ain authorities is trying to preach to Kerala astir societal progress. He has simply go a mouthpiece for…
— Pinarayi Vijayan (@pinarayivijayan) April 3, 2026“Kerala has eradicated utmost poverty. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities has promised full eradication of multidimensional poorness by 2030. Does the Telengana authorities person immoderate comparable plans to uplift the needy and suffering masses?” helium asked.
Mr Vijayan sought to gully a stark examination betwixt Kerala’s “extensive” societal payment system, including its LIFE Housing Mission for the stateless and the Telangana government’s “demolition drives targeting marginalised communities, including Muslims” (at Khammam and Shastripuram successful February 2026).
Mr Vijayan accused Mr Reddy of “refusing to look the reality” of Kerala’s highest societal improvement and precocious carnal quality-of-life indexes. “Somebody seemed to person misled him astir Kerala. Mr Reddy seeks to lecture Kerala connected improvement and societal security, portion his authorities bulldozes the dwellings of poverty-stricken families struggling to marque ends conscionable successful Telengana”, helium said.
Comparison ‘indecorous’
Mr Vijayan noted that it was “indecorous” to comparison 2 States. However, helium said, Mr Reddy’s effort to disguise Telangana’s improvement and societal information “downsides by maligning Kerala” had compelled him to acceptable the grounds straight.
Mr Vijayan reeled disconnected nationalist statistic to showcase Kerala’s 95.3 per cent literacy complaint compared to Telangana’s 76.9 per cent, and its babe mortality complaint (one successful 5,000), surpassing that of the US (5.6 successful 1,000). “Telangana’s IMR is 4 times that of Kerala”, Mr Vijayan said.
Mr Vijayan said the Telangana authorities repeatedly defaulted connected salaries and pensions, including societal payment pensions, but had loosened its purse strings for promotional paper advertisements. Mr Vijayan asked Mr Reddy to explicate wherefore helium sent a squad from his Telangana to survey Kerala’s palmy digitalisation of onshore records if helium thought the LDF authorities was awful.
