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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Thursday (March 26, 2026) slammed the Congress and Rahul Gandhi, whom helium termed “as a idiosyncratic who ne'er learns from his acts and lacks due position and knowing of assorted issues,” for “aiding the BJP to summation power” successful a fewer States, including Bihar, Delhi and Rajasthan and “torpedoing the Opposition confederation against the BJP.”
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Gandhi, though a nationalist person of the Congress, “does not adjacent lucifer up to the section leaders of his enactment successful presumption of his competence to comprehend assorted issues.”
“He has been proven unfit to beryllium a governmental leader. He ne'er learns from his assorted acts and ne'er corrects himself. Mr. Gandhi has often failed to get a grasp of the issues,” said Mr. Vijayan portion responding to the connection of the Congress person connected wherefore Central agencies had spared the Kerala Chief Minister from interrogation.
Mr. Vijayan said the acquittal of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Arvind Kejriwal and his enactment leaders successful the Delhi liquor argumentation scam lawsuit was “a choky slap connected the face” of Mr. Gandhi and the Congress, which “supported the BJP’s ulterior moves” successful cooking up a mendacious lawsuit against the erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister. The BJP had utilized Central probe agencies to foist mendacious cases against Opposition enactment leaders, including Mr. Kejriwal. The Congress joined hands with the BJP successful persecuting Mr. Kejriwal, which helped the BJP instrumentality to powerfulness successful Delhi, said Mr. Vijayan, portion accusing the Congress and Mr. Gandhi of being the “B squad of the BJP.”
Mr. Vijayan besides blamed the Congress enactment for paving the mode for the BJP to travel to powerfulness successful Rajasthan, “a State wherever it was improbable to instrumentality to power.”
The Congress created instability successful the Opposition confederation successful Bihar, which made things casual for the BJP. In Kerala too, the Congress had struck deals with the BJP to combat the LDF. The Congress and the BJP-RSS harvester had jointly fielded candidates against CPI(M) leaders E.M.S. Nambudrippad and A.K. Gopalan earlier, helium said.
‘Electoral understandings’
The Chief Minister alleged that the Congress and the BJP had entered into “electoral understandings” successful respective section bodies of Kerala during the caller section assemblage elections.
“The 2 parties had besides made a tacit canvass tie-up successful Nemom and an adjacent Assembly constituency successful the 2021 Assembly polls wherever a BJP campaigner won the seat. While the ballot stock of the Congress plummeted successful Nemom, facilitating the triumph of the BJP candidate, the votes of the BJP were not seen polled for its campaigner successful an adjacent constituency, which was a quid pro quo statement to guarantee the triumph of the Congress campaigner there,” helium alleged.
Mr. Vijayan besides criticised the constabulary announcement to journalists and politicians who shared the representation of an authoritative connection from the Election Commission of India (ECI), which was recovered bearing the BJP’s seal.
“One cannot clamp down connected protests against an unjust act. The constabulary would person acted connected the instructions of the ECI connected the contented arsenic the State authorities does not person power implicit the constabulary during the canvass period. The State Electoral Officer, who has ordered an enquiry into the shocking developments, shall fto radical cognize what transpired successful the issue,” helium demanded.
