Palakkad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was silent about the Agusta dealduring his election campaign in Kerala. The BJP has been tom-tomming about it in Delhi
Mr Modi launched the campaign for NDA candidates in the state with a blistering attack on the UDF and the LDF and claiming that a third force will emerge in the Kerala Assembly this time.
“This force will end their politics of compromise,” he said at Kotta Maidan. “For the past 60 years, both the LDF and UDF had been looting the state on the basis of a mutual understanding. The politics in Kerala was a game between both the fronts without a referee to control it,” he added.
“Now, with a new political scene emerging in the state, a third force will emerge in the Kerala Assembly in the upcoming elections. All of you in the BJP and the NDA have been relentlessly working for it and I will reward you by implementing development projects in the state,” he declared.
Braving the scorching heat, over 1 lakh people had turned up to listen to Mr Modi. Referring to the rape and murder of law student Jisha at Perumbavur, Mr Modi said that it showed that there was no governance in the state.
About the Non-Resident Keralites, he said that the Central government was keen on providing them all assistance and Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had worked hard to bring back safely the nurses from Kerala caught up in the civil war in Iraq, Libya and Yemen.
BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan, SNDP general secretary Vellappally Natesan, BJP senior leader and candidate of Nemom segment, O. Rajagopal along with all the NDA candidates in Palakkad district, including Sobha Surendran (Palakkad) and C. Krishnakumar (Malampuzha), took part in the rally.
