Thiruvananthapuram: BJP leader and Union health minister J. P. Nadda, who is in charge of Kerala, on Wednesday claimed that people in the state were fed up with both LDF and UDF, and they wanted a change.
Inaugurating the election convention of the NDA, he said the coalition would be an alternative to the two. He said it was a historic moment when he officially launched the NDA’s state unit and that the LDF had lost its idology, and wherever they were in power, they showed intolerance. “Several BJP supporters were killed in CPM attacks,” he said.
BJP national president Amit Shah would kick off his election campaign in the state on April 9.
“While UDF government became the champion of scams and controversies, LDF became the spokesperson of murder politics. When Kerala was at the forefront of education and social milieu, both the fronts maligned the name of the state. Kerala should get the benefit of growth and benefits Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development schemes should reach the people,” he said.
Mr Nadda highlighted various welfare schemes initiated by the NDA government and said “poor and marginalised people in the country are the beneficiaries.”
Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), representing the Ezhava community, headed by Tushar Vellapally, Kerala Congress led by former Union minister P. C. Thomas, JSS faction led by former MLA Rajan Babu, Kerala Vikas Party, and Lok Janshakti Party are other NDA constituents in Kerala. Mr Nadda also visited Amal Krishna, taluk pracharak of the RSS, who is convalescing at a private hospital after CPM workers attacked him at Kattaikonam.
