Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has come down on the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre for financially strangling the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala just because it is not subscribing to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) agenda.
He was delivering a speech at the Navakerala Sadas, the government’s public outreach initiative, for the Kozhikode South and Kozhikode North Assembly constituencies at the Kozhikode beach on Saturday evening. “In the country, a Left government is in power only in Kerala. As we know, the NDA government at the Centre is implementing the RSS agenda. Some people may adjust with it, but we cannot do it. Neither the Left forces in the country nor the LDF in Kerala have never adjusted with the RSS agenda,” he said.
Mr. Vijayan alleged that because of taking this political stand, the Centre was looking at Kerala from a particular point of view and torturing it. The Centre was also trying to usurp the State’s powers. The Chief Minister cited the denial of permission for an All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kozhikode as an example of the anti-Kerala attitude of the NDA government. “We are eligible to get an AIIMS here. Everyone will agree that it will help Kerala improve its position in the health sector. But despite trying for many years, the permission is elusive,” Mr. Vijayan said. Every time the announcement for new AIIMS are made, Kerala look up to it hoping that it would get the facility. “But we are being left out all the time,” the Chief Minister said.
