On Friday, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attempted to force the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government against the ropes by accusing the administration of courting wealthy expatriate donors to sponsor the Loka Kerala Sabha’s (LKS) regional conclave in the United States of America in mid-June.
They alleged that the government reserved the LKS’s high table for the wealthy and powerful. The lakhs of ordinary expatriates, who endured the daily deprivations of an exile’s life in cramped labour camps, were “unrepresented” in the forum.
The Congress and the BJP also highlighted alleged instances of NRI investors driven to desperation after sinking their life savings in projects hobbled by “administrative red tape and the Communist Party of India (Marxist)‘s political highhandedness”.
