- Sunday, May 19, 2024
By: Pramod Kumar
THE president of India’s ruling party has slammed the left government in Kerala over the poor Covid-19 management and the law and order situation in the state.
BJP president J P Nadda has blamed the left government’s “political attitude” for the crimes against women, alleged operation of terror cells, and increasing coronavirus cases in the southern state.
Nadda also accused senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of ‘politicising’ the rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl in Delhi by tweeting the victim’s family’s pictures and said his Twitter account should be locked.
He also termed Gandhi’s two-day visit to Kerala as “political tourism”.
While speaking at the virtual inauguration of a BJP district office in Kozhikode, Nadda alleged that the burden of Covid mismanagement in the state has become a burden of the country.
Kerala accounts for more than half of the country’s caseload now as the state reports around 20,000 fresh cases on an average in a day.
Comparing the percentage of people infected in the state to date with that of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Nadda said the northern states fared very well in their COVID management.
On the law and order situation in Kerala, the BJP president said it has gone “haywire” in view of the number of rape cases, targetting women and children, presence of terror modules, and the alleged “involvement” of the Chief Minister’s office (CMO) in the gold smuggling through diplomatic channels case.
He also alleged the CMO has not been able to come out of the shade of the gold smuggling case.
Nadda also said that Kerala’s development has come to a “standstill” by the “political culture” prevailing here for the last four decades and the huge economic debt.
He further alleged that due to the “hostile political attitude” in Kerala, existing industries were locking up and trying to flee.
No new industries are coming to the state and educated youth are fleeing the state to find jobs, Nadda added.
