UDF has alternative plan for Kerala’s development, claims Satheesan

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Opposition person  V.D. Satheesan and IUML person  P.K. Kunhalikutty, with the 76 UDF candidates for the Kozhikode Corporation election, astatine  an predetermination  normal  successful  the metropolis  connected  November 22.

Opposition person V.D. Satheesan and IUML person P.K. Kunhalikutty, with the 76 UDF candidates for the Kozhikode Corporation election, astatine an predetermination normal successful the metropolis connected November 22. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh

The United Democratic Front (UDF) has an alternate program for Kerala’s societal and economical development, Opposition person V.D. Satheesan has said. He was delivering a code to unfastened the UDF’s predetermination normal for the Kozhikode Corporation up of the section assemblage polls present connected Saturday (November 22).

Mr. Satheesan claimed that the State’s nationalist indebtedness had skyrocketed to ₹6 lakh crore due to the fact that of the flawed policies of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities successful the past nine-and-a-half years. The Kerala State Electricity Board’s indebtedness had reached ₹50,000 crore. The monthly expenses of middle-class families had gone up by astatine slightest ₹15,000 successful the past twelvemonth alone. “The system is successful a atrocious shape. Youngsters are forced to migrate to different States and countries successful hunt of amended acquisition and jobs. We request a alteration successful this situation, and the UDF has a program for the purpose,” helium said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Satheesan besides accused Kadakampally Surendran, erstwhile Devaswom Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, of being complicit successful the alleged theft of gold-plated claddings astatine the Sabarimala Temple. He claimed that Unnikrishnan Potti, 1 of the accused successful the case, was adjacent to Mr. Surendran. “A procession of CPI(M) leaders to jailhouse has begun, and this volition spell connected for immoderate time. If the High Court had not intervened, these corrupt practices would not person travel to light. The archetypal gold-plated claddings were sold to 1 billionaire and were replaced by copper plates,” helium said.

P.K. Kunhalikutty, MLA, and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader, said that a alteration was successful the aerial and the radical would ballot retired the LDF successful the upcoming section assemblage polls and the Assembly polls. The UDF would devise programmes to amended the surviving conditions of each sections of people, helium added.

Later, each the 76 candidates contesting the predetermination to the corp were introduced to the audience. M.K. Raghavan, Hibi Eden, and Shafi Parambil, MPs, and M.K. Muneer, MLA, among others, were present.

Published - November 22, 2025 07:46 p.m. IST

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