For the second consecutive day on Saturday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress clashed over how voters in Kerala would interpret the Enforcement Directorate’s “puzzling disinterest” in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
At the same time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the bully pulpit of his high office to spotlight the “fratricidal regional spat” between the INDIA bloc allies at a public rally in Maharashtra.
In an apparent nod to the dispute between the Congress and the CPI(M) in Kerala, Mr. Modi told a rally in Maharashtra that INDIA bloc allies were contesting against each other in 25% of the Lok Sabha seats in India. He claimed the infighting and name-calling would worsen after the poll results were out on June 4.