The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] scented a political victory in the Congress’s decision to move an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha to spotlight the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government’s “fiscal hostility” towards Kerala.
Speaking to reporters in Thrissur on December 5 (Tuesday), Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan termed the motion moved by T.N. Prathapan, MP, challenging the Centre’s “politically motivated bid to strangulate the State’s finances” a welcome change of heart.
He noted that Mr. Prathapan’s move contradicted the Congress’s narrative that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s “faulty tax administration and profligacy” had precipitated the financial crisis.
