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The Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Catholic Church has travel down heavy connected the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities successful Kerala, calling it a “brand successful PR exercise.”
In a hard-hitting editorial of the latest contented of its mouthpiece Sathyadeepam, the archdiocese called the authorities retired connected a assortment of issues, including the motorboat of a caller marque of liquor, alleged information breach and spending connected publicity campaigns.
“Was it due to the fact that the authorities failed to physique a notable marque successful the fields of health, education, oregon tourism during its years successful powerfulness that it thought of launching a liquor marque called ‘Minnal Magic’ astatine lightning velocity during the predetermination season?,” the editorial asked.
It said if 1 were to reappraisal the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government’s nationalist relations efforts aimed astatine transforming nationalist cognition astir its governance failures, “it would not beryllium an exaggeration to accidental that the authorities itself is simply a marque successful election-time PR campaigns.”
Citing the Opposition United Democratic Front’s (UDF) allegation that the authorities spent astir ₹150 crore past twelvemonth (2025) unsocial connected advertisements funded done KIIFB borrowings, the editorial slammed the authorities for conducting the Nava Kerala Survey and an planetary conclave nether the banner ‘Vision 2031’.
“It is being claimed that if the authorities does not get re-elected, everything initiated by it volition travel to a halt. It is arsenic if the radical are unaware that administrative systems proceed adjacent erstwhile governments change,” the nonfiction said.
Questioning the alleged information breach down the authorities sending promotional messages to authorities employees and backstage entrepreneurs, the editorial said, “A authorities that is duty-bound to support citizens’ beingness and spot indispensable besides safeguard their privacy. Instead, it stands accused of openly violating information extortion norms and work rules. If specified misuse of administrative systems had occurred astatine the hands of the Central government, what would person been the standard of protest?”
“The blurring of lines betwixt authorities machinery and enactment propaganda, and betwixt improvement activities and election-driven promotion, threatens the fairness of the electoral process,” it said.
