The 36-day-long Navakerala Sadas, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s mass outreach programme which traversed the entire stretch of the State, concluded in Vattiyurkavu on Saturday evening, with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan highlighting the massive public participation in all constituencies as a message to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government to correct its stance towards Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan laid stress on the fact that the entire yatra was aimed at highlighting the issues plaguing the State owing to the Union government’s policies which are affecting Kerala’s progress at various levels. He said that Kerala had been denied as much as ₹1.075 lakh crore in Central allocation over the past seven years, thus hampering many ambitious projects as well as day-to-day functioning.
“We embarked on this yatra to convey to the people these attempts to economically strangulate Kerala. Money that is owed to the State is being denied to us. How will we work for the State’s future in such a scenario? Over the past 36 days from Manjeswaram to Vattiyurkavu, we have seen that the people have fully understood this message and are standing with us in this fight,” said Mr. Vijayan.
