THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress veteran AK Antony has unleashed a tirade towards the ruling Left authorities by branding it an entity steeped in ‘conceitedness, corruption and lavishness’. The Congress Working Committee member warned that if the LDF authorities returns to energy, the state will likely be in peril and the seeds of catastrophe will likely be sowed. Antony additionally blamed the LDF authorities for its cussed stand on the Sabarimala verdict.
The senior Congress chief who got here to the state after greater than an 12 months following the pandemic was speaking to reporters at Indira Bhavan on Wednesday. The 80-year-old politician, who has at all times come out with hard-hitting statements towards political opponents, got here down closely on the LDF and NDA earlier than kick-starting his marketing campaign for the UDF later this week.
Taking a jibe at Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s transfer to a sober manner, Antony maintained that the change of favor and nuanced statements are simply phrases of knowledge to hoodwink the voters.
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“Now Pinarayi is claiming that the Sabarimala situation will likely be taken up when the Supreme Court docket takes up the problem and that the stakeholders will likely be taken into confidence. The Opposition had pleaded with the LDF authorities to not present haste. If that they had taken this stand then, they’d not have confronted this disaster,” mentioned Antony.
He warned that devotees and girls won’t ever pardon the LDF authorities. The senior Congress chief additionally criticized the Left authorities over its ‘politics of violence’. He referred to the political murders of Shuhaib in Kannur and Kripesh and Sarathlal in Kasaragod. The Chief Minister altering his tone doesn’t imply that the folks, principally ladies, will overlook these murders, he mentioned.
“The youths within the state have been a harried lot, with the Public Service Fee being transformed to a celebration fee. Once they go to the polling cubicles on April 6, they may train their franchise towards the LDF authorities. Pinarayi had branded the fishermen group because the state’s Military. Now the Left has cheated them by signing an MoU with an American agency on deep sea fishing,” added Antony.
Recalling Flory Pereira, martyr of the 1959 liberation battle, Antony quipped, “No pardon, no pardon for the LDF authorities for becoming a member of fingers with the US agency on the deep sea fishing rip-off.”
