Pinarayi Vijayan countered Rahul Gandhi and Yogi Adityanath’s allegations towards Kerala authorities.
Thiruvananthapuram:
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday lashed out at Congress chief and Wayanad parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi in addition to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, days after the 2 had hit out on the Left authorities in Kerala throughout their respective campaigns within the state.
“Wayayand MP Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath could have completely different views about Kerala however have the identical emotions towards the Left. They’re united in that,” Pinarayi Vijayan stated.
“Rahul Gandhi got here to Kerala and made some uncommon interventions. He drove a tractor for farmers, swam for fishermen in the sea, ignoring the protests in different components of India… Anyway, the large-heartedness of Rahul Gandhi is to be appreciated,” Chief Minister added.
Hitting out on the Congress for its anti-farmer insurance policies for the reason that Nineties, alleging it “pushed farmers to suicide in India”, Pinarayi Vijayan stated Rahul Gandhi ought to be apologising to farmers.
“The blood of lakhs of farmers who died is on Congress… Rahul Gandhi should apologies unconditionally to farmers on behalf of Congress,” the Chief Minister added.
Rahul Gandhi had led a tractor rally in his parliamentary constituency of Wayanad on Monday and addressed a farmer’s gathering after that. Later, in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi had hit out on the Left authorities on a number of points alleging “lack of jobs for the youth”, and “fishermen’s livelihood being destroyed”, amongst different points.
“Kids in Kerala are questioning why they cannot get jobs. It’s a dynamic state with sensible kids. Left entrance authorities stated they’ll make Kerala excellent. My query is – excellent for whom? Excellent for the individuals of Kerala or its personal occasion? If they’re certainly one of them, carry their flag, each job is for them,” Rahul Gandhi had stated, making references to teams of protesting rank holders exterior the secretariat.
Pinarayi Vijayan throughout his press briefing additionally hit out at Yogi Adityanath, who had inaugurated the BJP state-wide rally underway in Kerala presently. “Yogi Adityanath stated Kerala is behind in all the pieces. He stated younger individuals are going overseas as a result of they do not have jobs right here. 15 per cent of migrant employees in Kerala are from Uttar Pradesh and they’re given insurance coverage and different advantages. Uttar Pradesh CM stated that the Kerala authorities is attempting to make individuals battle towards one another. In these 5 years, Kerala has not seen any communal violence. However what’s the state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh? We have now seen it. Crimes towards girls are the best in Uttar Pradesh,” Mr Vijayan stated.
“Kerala’s inhabitants is 3.5 crore. 1.10 crore Covid checks have been carried out in Kerala. However for Uttar Pradesh, a state with 6 occasions extra inhabitants than Kerala – Covid checks have crossed solely 3 crore. Kerala’s take a look at per million is double of Uttar Pradesh. Kerala is an instance to the nation relating to limiting deaths,” Pinarayi Vijayan added.
