By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Though he expressed confidence that SilverLine challenge will probably be efficiently applied with folks’s help, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday refused to hyperlink the semi high-speed rail challenge to the end result of the May 31 Thrikkakara meeting bypoll. “All electoral outcomes needn’t be linked to it (SilverLine).
Even in areas that noticed anti- SilverLine protests, LDF received just lately (within the native physique byelection),” he instructed reporters on the primary anniversary of the second LDF authorities. He additionally evaded a direct reply on whether or not the bypoll can be a referendum on the federal government’s rule. “People gave extra votes to LDF within the current native physique bypoll than within the earlier election. Each election has its personal peculiarities.
Let’s see,” he mentioned. On the laying of stones for SilverLine’s social affect evaluation survey, Pinarayi mentioned the current authorities order — which mentioned the survey may be carried out with out laying the stones — had introduced readability to the matter. He mentioned his authorities carried out impressively up to now one yr and fulfilled its duties regardless of crises. Claiming that individuals’s help for the LDF authorities was hovering, as was evident within the native physique bypoll, Pinarayi mentioned his authorities will efficiently implement all its declared tasks.
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On state Congress president Okay Sudhakaran’s ‘dog with broken chain’ comment in opposition to him, Pinarayi mentioned it mirrored the tradition of the one that mentioned it. He additionally disagreed with Sudhakaran’s clarification that the comment was not objectionable as per native parlance within the Malabar area. “Let society assess whether such utterances are proper,” the CM mentioned, including the federal government was not eager on legally transferring in opposition to Sudhakaran “The case against him was not registered at the government’s behest,” he mentioned.
On the choice of Okay V Thomas to help the LDF, the chief minister mentioned it will undoubtedly assist the Left entrance. Hailing the ousted Congress chief’s resolution to affix arms with LDF as a “brave stance”, Pinarayi mentioned the veteran chief had realised that LDF stood for improvement whereas UDF was adopting an anti-development stance.
