Kerala has become a “hotbed of anti-national forces” due to “misrule” by the state government over the years, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis he said in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, PTI reported.
Devendra Fadnavis also reportedly claimed that vote bank politics of the parties that were in power in the state was another reason for his claim, according to PTI.
According to PTI, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who was in the state capital as part of the BJP’s 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign, said Kerala should have been at the forefront and leading the technological and economic revolution from the country. .
But the state was going backwards and not forward, despite its high literacy rate and “wonderful talent”, due to the LDF and UDF’s “similar agenda of corruption and oppression”, he claimed, the news agency reported on Sunday. .
He further alleged that “due to poor governance, (Kerala) has become a hotbed of anti-national forces and just for the vote bank, the local governments are protecting the anti-national forces.”
“That’s why I think it’s high time for Kerala to come into the mainstream,” Devendra Fadnavis said at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram.
When asked about the recent bomb blast in Kannur that claimed one life and injured three others, all CPI(M) workers according to the police, Devendra Fadnavis said, “Criminalization of politics has always been here “, PTI reported.
“Now that the Electoral Commission is proactive, all such attempts would be discovered,” he responded, according to the news agency.
Regarding questions about the recent telecast of the controversial film, The Kerala Story, on Doordarshan, Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said that once a film is cleared for public viewing by the censor board, it does not there is no prohibition for its transmission anywhere. platform.
During his press conference, he also praised several central plans and projects of the Narendra Modi government.
Giving details, Devendra Fadnavis said that due to the initiatives taken by the BJP government at the Centre, 25 million people have crossed the poverty line in the country in the last 10 years, around 20 million people got good houses built and around 50 Million people got tap water in their homes.
He further stated that due to the proactivity of the Modi government there has been a lot of infrastructure development such as roads, launch of new trains like Vande Bharat, doubling of airports in the country and increase in ports.
“So, I see an increase in support in all states and in all communities and this time we are very hopeful that in Kerala too we will get a significant number of seats and votes.
“I think this is an election where a government in power for 10 years faces a government for it and not against it,” Devendra Fadnavis said, according to PTI.
Fadnavis also urged everyone to vote for Union Minister of State for Information Technology and Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who will contest from the Thiruvananthapuram seat in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the news agency reported.
Devendra Fadnavis said every vote for BJP candidates goes to Prime Minister Modi and would help give him a third term.
(with PTI inputs)