On Saturday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched an electioneering blitz, hitting the campaign trail for a 24-day whirlwind tour of Kerala’s 20 Lok Sabha constituencies.
The third and final leg of Mr. Vijayan’s campaign, which will conclude three days before the polls on April 23, aims at expanding the broad coalition of forces that powered the LDF to victory for a second consecutive term in the 2021 Assembly elections.
The LDF has calibrated the campaign to eclipse the perceived disadvantages of incumbency by casting the Lok Sabha polls as a pivotal referendum on “preserving India’s secular democracy” and little else.
