Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to proactively channelise mounting public anger over the back-to-back human-wildlife conflicts that claimed three lives within a short span of 72 hours against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government.
Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan and BJP State president separately slammed the government for failing to protect the lives and property of citizens from marauding wildlife and have sought to make the viscerally emotive topic a Lok Sabha campaign issue.
Congress and BJP also said the quantum of compensation for victims of wildlife attacks was paltry, and the cash-strapped LDF government was hard-pressed to disburse crop loss settlements.
