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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Saturday (March 21, 2026) pushed the cooking state scarcity roiling the nationalist economy into Kerala’s electoral statement by blaming successive Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments astatine the Centre for the “unprecedented vigor crisis”.
In a connection successful Thiruvananthapuram, Mr Vijayan said that the Congress successful 2006, and aboriginal the BJP, “capitulated to American imperialism’ by repeatedly rejecting the projected India-Iran state pipeline.
Mr Vijayan termed the determination “a humanities mistake” that has outgo the state dear. He said the Congress authorities astatine the Centre ousted and aboriginal politically sidelined the past Petroleum Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, for powerfully backing the pipeline, which would person guaranteed India’s vigor security.
Mr Vijayan said firm interests had besides played a relation successful India’s “shortsighted” determination to shelve the pipeline project. He said the Congress replaced Mr Iyer with Murli Deora, known for his allegedly pro-corporate attack to India’s vigor policy, to assistance the backstage assemblage profit. “Instead of promulgating a pro-people vigor information policy, the Congress adopted a corporate-centric petroleum argumentation which yet benefited the backstage assemblage astatine the outgo of India’s semipermanent vigor reliability”, helium said.
Mr Vijayan accused the BJP of turning a unsighted oculus to the economical fallout of the cooking state crisis, including the shutdown, large-scale layoffs, and the nonaccomplishment of livelihoods successful the edifice industry.
He said the Congress and the BJP had “bypassed” nationalist lipid companies and allowed 2 backstage lipid refineries to signifier monopolies. Mr Vijayan said the BJP authorities astatine the Centre had stopped buying lipid from Russia “in deference to America’s diktats.”
Mr Vijayan said the lipid daze caused by the warfare successful West Asia threatened the country’s economy. “The Centre failed to foresee threats to India’s vigor security. The Centre has myopically failed to summation LNG accumulation oregon guarantee capable banal of crude to tide implicit the crisis”, helium said.
Mr Vijayan said the lipid daze has sent ostentation connected an upward spiral and threatened to exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis. “However, the BJP has nary reply arsenic to however the dire concern came to pass,” helium said.
