A brutal campaign season marked by tit-for-tat smears and insinuations seemed to lie ahead as Kerala raced towards the Lok Sabha elections.
For one, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary M.V. Govindan on Friday dared the Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan to answer Left independent legislator P.V. Anwar’s charge that the Congress leader had accepted significant bribes from business lobbies in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to scuttle the government’s flagship semi-high speed railway (K-Rail) project.
