Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asked the Congress to “decide” whether the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is its primary foe in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Mr. Vijayan posed the question in Thrissur on December 5, given the Congress’s reported move to field its star political campaigner Rahul Gandhi for a second time from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 parliamentary polls.
Mr. Vijayan said the BJP was barely in the reckoning in the Lok Sabha polls in Kerala. This rendered the CPI(M) the primary enemy of the Congress in the State, he said, adding that the LDF would field its candidate in Wayanad.
Mr. Vijayan said that the INDIA bloc was not an alliance and it lacked the organisational form of a political front. Its purpose was to ensure the BJP’s defeat in the Lok Sabha polls. The INDIA bloc has no say in the candidate selection of individual parties, he said.
