Lok Sabha Elections 2024 | Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, On Friday, Hits Back At Rahul Gandhi | News18Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, on Friday, recalled “an old name of Rahul Gandhi” to attack the Congress leader, who a day earlier had wondered why Marxist veteran was not jailed by BJP govt at the state, unlike two other CMs opposition-ruled states
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Targeting her, the Kerala CM referred to the CBI raids at a private company DLF. He said there were allegations of land dealings between the company and Vadra. Vijayan claimed the company purchased electoral bonds worth Rs 170 crore after the raids. “The same BJP government later told the court that there was nothing illegal with the transactions of the company. The raid and the case ended soon after they paid the BJP through electoral bonds,” Vijayan said.
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday once again lashed out at Congress leadership including Rahul Gandhi ahead of the polling in the state on April 26.
Training guns at the INDIA bloc ally, the veteran Marxist leader alleged that the 18 Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) MPs from Kerala stood against the interest of the state in Parliament.
Addressing an election rally at Vatakara, Vijayan countered Congress allegation of an ‘understanding’ between the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), raising the Robert Vadra-DLF land deal case to attack Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
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“In 2019, 18 UDF members were elected. We would like to ask whether any one of these members stood for the interest of Kerala? They stood with the RSS agenda. They didn’t even care to criticise the union government in the Parliament. Have they uttered a single word for Kerala?,” Vijayan was quoted by PTI as saying.
‘Cong wanted to blame Left for faults of BJP-led Union govt’: Vijayan
Continuing his attack, Vijayan said,”When the Centre was financially strangulating the state, the UDF members refused to meet the Union Finance Minister and did not stand up for the rights of Kerala. They (Congress) wanted to blame the Left government for the faults of the BJP-led union government,” he added.
On the Citizenship Amendment Act that was notified last month, Vijayan questioned the Congress for not mentioning it in its manifesto.
The chief minister claimed there were news reports indicating that strongly worded statements against CAA included in the draft of the Congress manifesto were removed after the top leadership intervened.
“When Sangh Parivar implements one of its agenda, the secular-minded people oppose it. Rahul Gandhi should make it clear whether he is a secular person or someone with the same mindset as that of the Sangh Parivar. How can the Congress not protest against such a Law?,” Vijayan asked.
Targeting Priyanka Gandhi, Vijayan referred to the CBI raids at a private company DLF.
He said there were allegations of land dealings between the company and Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi.
Vijayan claimed the company purchased electoral bonds for ₹170 crore after raids. “The same BJP government later told the court that there was nothing illegal with the transactions of the company. The raid and the case ended soon after they paid the BJP through the electoral bonds,” Vijayan said.
(With PTI inputs)Congress leader Priyanka Gand
hi on Saturday said that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is “compromised” as he “attacks” only the grand old party and Rahul Gandhi but not the BJP. The Congress leader said that Vijayan’s name has come up in many scams, including ‘Life Mission’ and gold smuggling through diplomatic bags, but the BJP-led Central government has neither taken up any case against him nor carried out raids or any kind of action against him.
She was speaking at a poll rally in the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency seeking votes for Congress candidate Anto Antony. The statement came hours after Vijayan raked up the DLF-Robert Vadra connection and targeted Priyanka Gandhi, who is Vadra’s wife
Priyanka Gandhi also attacked the CPI(M)-led Left government in the state, blaming it for people leaving Kerala for other states and countries due to lack of employment opportunities. She accused the state government of giving jobs only to its party workers and ignoring the common people.
