The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government was blocking the development of Kerala by not providing land for projects such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, and national highway and railway expansion projects, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah has said.
Addressing a public meeting at Angamaly here on Tuesday, Mr. Shah said the benefits of Central projects such as the Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana could not be extended as the State government failed to submit the fund utilisation certificates. “The LDF and the UDF cannot secure the State and the country. If Kerala wants to make India great again, the only option is to be with the BJP and ensure the return of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre,” he said.
Mr. Shah accused the “champions of human rights” of keeping mum on incidents of mob lynching in Kerala. “Since the LDF government came to power, there has been 225 such incidents. The champions of human rights who used to condemn the incidents that take place in other parts of the country were silent on Kerala,” he said.
Warning the “communist government” in Kerala against any attempts to “meddle up with the faith of people”, Mr. Shah said the party will stand by the nearly 2,000 people who were “falsely implicated” in cases related to the Sabarimala protest. The party has pledged its support for the believers by including the issue in its poll manifesto. It will also take steps to protect the faithful against whom the State government has fostered false cases, he said.
Referring to the Congress poll campaign that it will wipe out poverty from the country in five years, the BJP leader said all the Prime Ministers from the Gandhi family together could not achieve it.
However, the five years of Narendra Modi government improved the lives of over 50 crore poor people, he claimed.
BJP State president P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, party candidates K.J. Alphonse and A.N. Radhakrishnan were among those attended.
