KOZHIKODE: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday continued to lash out on the Congress and Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala for making the Election Fee to intervene and cease distribution of meals kits. Pinarayi urged the fee to take an acceptable choice over the difficulty after checking the details.
Addressing a press convention right here, Pinarayi stated, “The truth is, pension and meals kits will not be the federal government’s mercy; it’s the folks’s proper. By levelling baseless allegations, the Opposition chief is making an attempt to disclaim this proper to the folks. Nevertheless, the LDF has not determined to finish its welfare initiatives as it’s our coverage that no person needs to be left ravenous within the state.”
Reacting to the CM’s allegation, Congress state president Mullappally Ramachandran stated the Opposition chief didn’t reduce off anybody’s meals. “Pinarayi, who spends lavishly, doesn’t deserve to boost such allegations. The LDF authorities has spent Rs 1,000 crore of public cash on ads in media. The federal government ought to make clear on the funding of those advertisements,” he stated.
Responding to the Opposition’s allegation that the federal government had not distributed the meals kits for schoolchildren from September and was distributing it now eyeing the meeting elections, the CM stated the federal government had issued the order on February 20, instructing officers to distribute the meals kits to colleges college students within the wake of instructional establishments remaining closed. And, it was deliberate to be accomplished by the top of March, he added.
Pinarayi alleged that the Opposition chief has no thought concerning the meals package distribution and he ought to cease repeating lies over it. “Additional, the state authorities has not determined to distribute welfare pension prematurely eyeing the elections. Our choice was to provide pension by the primary week of April for the month of March contemplating the pageant season,” he stated.
