For the fourth time since January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will put his shoulder to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign bandwagon in Kerala by holding a roadshow and public rally in the Palakkad and Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituencies on March 15 and 17, respectively.
In his previous sallies into the State, Mr. Modi portrayed the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] as INDIA Bloc allies. He said they hid their true colours to pose as enemies in Kerala. Mr. Modi has repeatedly insisted that the Congress-CPI(M) “revolving door politics” was Kerala’s bane. He proposed “Modi’s guarantee” as the panacea for the State’s welfare and development “stasis.”