Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State committee has stoutly defended Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan against what it termed concerted attacks by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to cast the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government under a permanent cloud of suspicion of corruption and nepotism in the award and execution of the multi-crore Keltron-configured traffic enforcement camera system and Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON) contracts.
Addressing the press after a three-day leadership meeting of the party at its State headquarters at the AKG Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, Mr. Govindan said Congress, BJP, and the right-wing media had conspired to rob the LDF government’s second anniversary of its sheen by laying down a smokescreen of slanderous lies against the administration.
He alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi also lent his voice to the neo-liberal forces intent on denigrating Kerala and dismissing the ‘stellar achievements’ of LDF rule.
