In a hard-hitting attack against the Congress and the Communist Party of India(Marxists), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the ‘yuvraj’ of the grand old party could not protect his family’s seat in Uttar Pradesh and has come to Kerala to seek votes, and accused the Left party of looting the poor in the state.
There is around Rs one lakh crore deposited in 300 cooperative banks in the state by the poor, working class, women, and those who have returned from the Gulf countries, Modi said and alleged that this money was at “risk due to the corruption of the CPI(M)”.
During his public meeting at Kunnamkulam in Alathur LS constituency, Modi raked up the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank scam and said that it was he who initiated a probe by the ED into the scam, and now he was taking legal advice on how the money of the depositors could be returned from the amounts seized by the agencies.
This is Modi’s sixth visit to the state. He had last come on March 19 to Kerala, which is going to polls on April 26.
Without taking the name of Rahul Gandhi, who was also campaigning in his constituency Wayanad in the state, Modi said the Congress’ ‘yuvraj’ (prince) could not protect his family’s seat in Uttar Pradesh — a reference to the Amethi LS constituency which was a Congress bastion for years — and came to Kerala to seek votes.
Modi said the Congress leader will seek votes from the people of Kerala but will not raise his voice in their interests, as he was silent on the multi-crore scam in the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank controlled by the state’s ruling CPI(M).
“Violence and anarchy are common in Kerala. Political murders are carried out here. College campuses have become dens of anti-social movements. Our children are not safe,” he alleged in Alathur in the morning.
“The Left has only one character, be it Tripura, West Bengal, or Kerala; nothing left and nothing right. Meaning that where the Left is in power, there is nothing left, and nothing good happens there. What they did in West Bengal and Tripura, they are doing in Kerala also,” he alleged in Alathur.
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