Rahul Gandhi’s uncommon assault on Left: ‘If you carry their flag, any amount of gold smuggling allowed’

In a uncommon direct assault on the Left, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday sharply censured Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s LDF authorities, for favouring its personal get together employees in relation to offering jobs.
Gandhi is understood for not taking over the Left events immediately, regardless that his get together is the first challenger to the CPI (M) and its allies in Kerala.
But on Tuesday in Thiruvananthapuram, talking on the concluding session of the state-wide ‘Aiswarya Kerala Yatra’ taken out by Congress chief of opposition Ramesh Chennithala, Gandhi mentioned, “In Kerala, the most dynamic state, youngsters are wondering why they can’t get jobs. The Left Front said they will make Kerala perfect. The question is — Perfect for whom? Perfect for the people of Kerala or perfect for the Left organisation? If you are one of their people, every single job is available to you.”
He continued, “If you carry their flag, any amount of gold smuggling is allowed. You can sit in the chief minister’s office and do that job. But if you are a young Keralite, then you have to protest, shout and scream to try and get your right.” Gandhi was alluding to the gold smuggling and cash laundering circumstances wherein M Sivasankar, the previous principal secretary to the chief minister, is accused of involvement.
In the context of the PSC rank-holders protesting in entrance of the secretariat in opposition to the federal government’s back-door appointments’, Gandhi mentioned the CM would have spoken to them had they been employees of the Left events.
“The chief minister doesn’t care if you die, he will not speak to you. Why? Because you are not a Left Front worker. I guarantee you that if youngsters were Left Front workers, the chief minister would be talking to them right now…giving them every single job they don’t deserve. And when the Congress workers and people of Kerala try to fight non-violently, you beat them and kill them. You can kill as many of us as you want, but there will be scores of Congress workers who will fight you. We are not scared of your violence. We are not scared of your methods,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief additionally raised questions on the ‘slow pace’ of probe into the gold smuggling and cash laundering circumstances by numerous central companies, such because the CBI, ED and the NIA.
“I don’t understand why are the cases filed against those who worked in the chief minister’s office progressing so slowly? Why are they taking so much time? Why are the CBI, ED and other agencies not attacking the Left Front? I am a bit confused. I know when you fight the BJP, the BJP attacks you 24 hours of the day. There is only one reason the BJP is going slow on these cases. You can figure out what that reason is,” he mentioned.
Prior to the marketing campaign rally, Gandhi paid a go to to the protest web site in entrance of the Secretariat to speak to the PSC rank holders. During his three-day journey to Kerala, the Congress scion additionally led a tractors’ rally in assist of farmers in his constituency of Wayanad.