If Left continues in energy, it’s going to spell doom for Kerala: Veteran Congress chief AK Antony

By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress veteran AK Antony has unleashed a tirade towards the ruling Left authorities by branding it an entity steeped in ‘vanity, corruption and lavishness’. The Congress Working Committee member warned that if the LDF authorities returns to energy, the state can be in peril and the seeds of catastrophe can be sowed. Antony additionally blamed the LDF authorities for its cussed stand on the Sabarimala verdict.

The senior Congress chief who got here to the state after greater than an 12 months following the pandemic was speaking to reporters at Indira Bhavan on Wednesday. The 80-year-old politician, who has all the time come out with hard-hitting statements towards political opponents, got here down closely on the LDF and NDA earlier than kick-starting his marketing campaign for the UDF later this week.

Taking a jibe at Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s transfer to a sober manner, Antony maintained that the change of favor and nuanced statements are simply phrases of knowledge to hoodwink the voters.

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“Now Pinarayi is claiming that the Sabarimala issue will be taken up when the Supreme Court takes up the issue and that the stakeholders will be taken into confidence. The Opposition had pleaded with the LDF government not to show haste. If they had taken this stand then, they would not have faced this crisis,” stated Antony.

He warned that devotees and girls won’t ever pardon the LDF authorities. The senior Congress chief additionally criticized the Left authorities over its ‘politics of violence’. He referred to the political murders of Shuhaib in Kannur and Kripesh and Sarathlal in Kasaragod. The Chief Minister altering his tone doesn’t imply that the individuals, principally girls, will overlook these murders, he stated.

“The youths in the state have been a harried lot, with the Public Service Commission being converted to a party commission. When they go to the polling booths on April 6, they will exercise their franchise against the LDF government. Pinarayi had branded the fishermen community as the state’s Army. Now the Left has cheated them by signing an MoU with an American firm on deep sea fishing,” added Antony.

Recalling Flory Pereira, martyr of the 1959 liberation wrestle, Antony quipped, “No pardon, no pardon for the LDF government for joining hands with the US firm on the deep sea fishing scam.”