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  • PM Modi to kickstart BJP marketing campaign in Kerala, to financial institution on improvement plank

    By Express News Service
    KOCHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s determination to go to Kerala to the launch a slew of tasks value Rs 6,000 crore is a transparent indication that the BJP would struggle the upcoming meeting election on improvement plank, one thing the CPM has been banking on to distinguish itself from different events.

    Ahead of the inauguration of BPCL’s petrochemical advanced on Sunday, Modi would meet BJP state committee members and office-bearers on the venue. He is predicted to ask leaders to inspire booth-level employees and unfold the phrase about Centre’s improvement agenda.

    A day earlier than the PM’s go to, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan too pressured on the tasks Centre has envisioned for the state. He stated the petrochem advanced would usher in an array of industries, which can open new employment alternatives to Keralites.

    The state BJP has additionally organised programme to inspire the occasion rank and file forward of the meeting elections.The Modi regime had allotted Rs  65,000 crore for freeway improvement within the state and Rs 1,957 crore for the second section of Kochi Metro venture. Prime Minister will arrive at INS Garuda, the Naval air station by an Indian Air Force flight at 2.45pm on Sunday

  • Govt not shaken, individuals have constructed fort round it: Pinarayi

    Express News Service
    UPPALA (KASARAGOD): The Opposition is working a communal marketing campaign to deliver the federal government down however the LDF just isn’t shaken as a result of the individuals skilled the event and welfare work through the previous 4 years and have constructed a fort round it, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has stated. “We saw that in the local body elections,” he added.Pinarayi was talking on the launch of the LDF’s election marketing campaign in northern districts at Uppala close to Manjeshwar on Saturday.“Five years ago, the people expected little from the LDF because they just wanted “to get rid of the curse” that the UDF authorities had change into. But the LDF made an inventory of guarantees in its manifesto and yearly, the federal government launched its progress report,” he stated.

    The LDF authorities carried out the GAIL pipeline, City Gas — which is able to deliver cheaper piped cooking gasoline to kitchens — Edamon-Kochi Power Highway, Ok-FON, Water National Highway, initiated the Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram semi high-speed rail, National Waterways, initiatives which individuals thought may ot be carried out in Kerala.

    “During crises such as Ockhi, Nipah, the great floods and Covid-19, the government stood with the people and the people put up a united fight,” he stated.A rattled UDF is now working a marketing campaign saying the LDF is as rotten because it was 5 years in the past, he stated. “The central agencies have come forward with the responsibility of sabotage. A section of media has also joined the force,” he stated. 

    Communalism is a hazard to Kerala: CM

    The LDF’s marketing campaign — Vikasana Munnetta Yatra or the March of Development — is being led by the entrance’s convenor A Vijayaraghavan. The marketing campaign will contact seven districts and culminate in Thrissur on February 26.In a departure from the earlier statewide yatras, the chief minister didn’t hand over the LDF’s flag to the marketing campaign captain Vijayaraghavan due to Covid restrictions. Communalism is a hazard to the state, the chief minister stated. In the title of opposing the RSS, organisations such because the SDPI and the Jamaat-e-Islami are following the identical path of communalism, he stated. “All the three strengthen communalism and all the three are against the LDF,” he added.

    Without naming the Ayodhya temple, Pinarayi stated the Congress too was desperate to contribute to what the BJP was constructing. “See what is happening in Puducherry. The Congress leaders have joined the BJP. That’s the truth (of the party),” he stated. But the LDF doesn’t compromise with communalism, he stated. “That’s the specialty of Kerala. Here, the majority of the people are with secularism,” he stated.

    Pinarayi stated Kerala is not going to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. “The home minister says CAA will be implemented after the Covid vaccination drive ends. But we had said it will not be implemented and it will not be implemented,” he stated. The CAA provides Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees and the state authorities has little function in implementing it.

    CM ALSO SAIDCommunalism is a hazard to the state, the CM stated. In the title of opposing the RSS, organisations such because the SDPI and the Jamaat-e-Islami are following the identical path of communalism

    Pinarayi stated Kerala is not going to implement the CAA. “Union residence minister says CAA will probably be carried out after the Covid vaccination drive ends. But we had stated it is not going to be carried out.

  • Sobha Surendran meets PM Modi as points in Kerala BJP nonetheless stay

    Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP senior chief Sobha Surendran met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday in what was formally termed as a courtesy name. But it’s reliably learnt that organisational points within the BJP state unit figured prominently within the dialogue. 

    Sobha’s assembly with Modi a day forward of his go to to the state assumes significance because the firebrand girl chief returned to lively politics just lately following the intervention of BJP nationwide president J P Nadda. Sobha, a former member of the BJP nationwide government, had been retaining away from public life for practically a yr after being sidelined to a much less vital submit of state vice-president by the get together’s official faction. 

    Though the state management was all the time in denial mode about dissidence within the get together, Nadda selected to take the bull by its horns when he landed within the state just lately. While admitting that there have been complaints from a piece throughout the get together, he exuded hope that will probably be resolved internally. Nadda’s reassurance and his candid admission that he had tasked nationwide normal secretary Arun Singh to resolve the problem, paved method for Sobha to take part in a celebration perform and a public assembly attended by Nadda the very subsequent day.

    “The Prime Minister choosing to meet Sobha in New Delhi though he is slated to visit the state the very next day is significant. It can also be interpreted as a message to the state leadership to take all sections within the party into confidence before heading for the crucial assembly election,” stated a former state president requesting anonymity.  

    According to sources, Sobha is known to have highlighted that near 1,500 leaders at numerous ranges of the get together have been saved out of organisational duties purely on the idea of their factional allegiance. Addressing this discrimination was one of many main calls for of the dissidents, together with senior leaders P Ok Velayudhan and Ok P Sreeshan.

    Sobha’s assembly with Modi can be seen by a piece throughout the get together as a sign that the girl chief could also be given some key organisational duties. Besides being a member of the get together’s nationwide government, she was additionally the co-convenor of the get together’s nationwide membership marketing campaign committee in 2019.

  • Congress leaders tear into ‘cruel’ and ‘sarcastic’ Isaac, Jayarajan

    By Express News Service
    T’PURAM/PALAKKAD: Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala and KPCC chief Mullappally Ramachandran on Tuesday got here down closely on Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac and Industries Minister EP Jayarajan for belittling the PSC rank-holders who’ve been protesting in entrance of the Secretariat. The ministers’ reactions had been merciless and offending to the job-seekers, Mullappally stated.On Monday, two rank-holders had tried to immolate themselves. A lady, Laya, broke down in entrance of reporters on the venue, and the photographs and video of the scene went viral. 

    Isaac on Tuesday termed the youths’ stir as “kerosene protest” and accused the Opposition of instigating them. Jayarajan stated it was unattainable to terminate short-term staffers and the federal government has determined to regularise them. Mullappally stated the ministers won’t ever perceive the woes of the rank-holders who’ve been ready for presidency jobs for lengthy.

    “Children of several CPM leaders have gone to capitalist countries to pursue higher education, which explains why they are unable to see the pain of the youths coming from economically weaker sections. Isaac should have never come out with such a deplorable statement,” he stated. He additionally took a jibe at Jayarajan who needed to step down from workplace as a consequence of nepotism at first of the federal government’s tenure.

    At a reception for his Aishwarya Kerala Yatra in Palakkad, Chennithala stated, “Isaac is obsessed with power. That is why he is being sarcastic about the agitation.” “The statements that those who are agitating are part of a conspiracy and the Opposition is behind it do not befit a Communist minister. What is the difference between PM Narendra Modi and Isaac? The PM had called the farmers protesting on the Delhi border “andolan jeevi” (skilled protester), which is analogous to Isaac’s assertion,” he stated. 

  • Don’t use Sabarimala as ballot plank, tackle devotees’ woes collectively: NSS

    By Express News Service
    KOTTAYAM Lashing out at makes an attempt to make use of the Sabarimala challenge as a ballot plank to woo devotees, Nair Service Society basic secretary G Sukumaran Nair stated he expects a extra accountable and honest effort from political events to guard the proper to practise faith and to stay in response to one’s perception.“Around 95 per cent of the individuals in Kerala are believers of 1 religion or one other. It shouldn’t be Hindus alone who consider in Lord Ayyappa.

    The sentiments of Ayyappa devotees have been harm and I would like all political events to return collectively to guard our rights. What is occurring at Sabarimala at the moment can occur to some other faith tomorrow. So I need a extra accountable strategy from political events to deal with the woes of devotees and to make sure that such incidents don’t repeat,” he instructed TNIE on Tuesday.

    Earlier within the day, a press release issued in that regard had led to hypothesis on the intention of the NSS management. But Sukumaran Nair clarified there was no change within the political stand of the organisation.“We don’t support any front and will continue our stand of equidistance,” he stated.The assertion stated the implementation of the decision by the five-member Supreme Court bench would adversely have an effect on the centuries-old rituals and practices of assorted temples throughout the state. 

    Sabarimala: NSS says UDF may have introduced a invoice

    “Steps should be taken to protect the practices of Hindu religious institutions like in the places of worship of other religions. NSS has a declared policy of protecting faith, rituals and practices,” he stated.Expressing confidence that the decision of the nine-member SC bench might be in favour of devotees, Sukumaran Nair stated the BJP, in energy on the Centre, may have introduced in a laws to miss the decision on the entry of younger ladies into the hill shrine. He didn’t spare the UDF both.

    “Though it is in the Opposition now, the UDF could have brought a bill in the state assembly for the protection of temple practices,” stated the NSS basic secretary, who additionally doubted the entrance’s sincerity in its promise to usher in a legislation to guard the devotees’ rights.Questioning the ruling LDF’s claims of upholding religion, Sukumaran Nair requested whether or not the federal government would withdraw the affidavit filed within the SC supporting the entry of younger ladies into the Sabarimala shrine.“Will the state government bring in legislation to find a solution to the problem?” he requested.

  • Rahul Gandhi to carry roadshow in Kerala, Priyanka to affix

    Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress chief and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the UDF’s ballot campaigning within the state capital on February 23, coinciding with the fruits of the Aishwarya Kerala Yatra.Though the yatra, led by Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala, was scheduled to conclude on February 22, it has been prolonged by a day due to Rahul’s inconvenience.

    During the occasion, Rahul can even launch the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme, which was proposed through the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

    Rahul can be anticipated to carry a roadshow from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram after the ballot dates are introduced.“In all likelihood, Rahul Gandhi is expected to hold a roadshow in his car on the lines of his Tamil Nadu event. Priyanka Gandhi will also be a star campaigner,” KPCC normal secretary Okay P Anil Kumar instructed TNIE. Apart from Kerala, elections can be held in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. 

    Since Rahul represents Wayanad in Parliament, the stakes are excessive for him within the meeting polls. The AICC goals nothing in need of a win for the Congress-led UDF in Kerala and has conveyed the message to the state leaders. By making Rahul the star campaigner within the meeting elections, the AICC hopes to tug off a victory this time.

    Congress desires to recreate ‘Rahul wave’

    The Congress excessive command desires to recreate the “Rahul Wave” of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections which noticed the UDF profitable 19 of the 20 seats. It will chart Rahul’s marketing campaign itinerary quickly. The KPCC management is elated over the response the Aishwarya Kerala Yatra has been evoking. It hopes to transform the momentum into votes.“The Yatra has completed 10 days and the response from the public has been tremendous,” yatra coordinator V D Satheesan stated and added the concluding assembly of the yatra is more likely to be held on the Green Field Stadium.

  • BJP gears up for polls, to type committees to galvanise supporters

    Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Close on the heels of BJP nationwide president J P Nadda’s go to, the celebration’s state unit has began gearing up organisationally and politically for the upcoming meeting elections. One of the important thing directives given by the central management was to strengthen the celebration from the grassroots within the run-up to the elections. As a part of implementing this directive, booth-level committees comprising 17 members are being constituted. Besides organising neighbourhoold-level conferences, the first responsibility of the committees might be to hold out home visits and make the celebration’s presence felt on the grassroots.

    “Around four panchayats will be clubbed as a cluster and pubic meetings and campaign will be carried out at this level as well. This will constitute the second tier of our campaign,” mentioned a state core group member of the celebration. The third stage of marketing campaign might be held on the constituency stage in a grand method, he added. 

    BJP state president Okay Surendran is ready to embark on a state-wide yatra from February 20. Though the yatra will move by means of a lot of the constituencies, in-charges have been appointed in these meeting constituencies which aren’t a part of the yatra schedule.“In Thiruvananthapuram district, the state president’s yatra will cover eight of the 14 constituencies. In the remaining six constituencies, there will be no let-up in the campaign as strong alternative arrangements have been put in place,” mentioned a senior celebration functionary.

    The probablesWhile it’s sure that BJP heavyweights might be fielded in additional than 20 constituencies the place the celebration had polled greater than 30,000 votes earlier, the central management has additionally directed fielding of latest faces who’re crowd pullers. 

    “Around 25 seats will be set apart for fresh faces who can ensure at least 10,000 votes through their goodwill alone. The party machinery will take care of the rest. Religious or community considerations will not be taken into account for such candidates,” mentioned a senior chief. As the following step, the state election committee might be constituted comprising core group members and some others in order to make sure illustration for ladies, Dalit and youth classes. The organisational course of within the run-up to the election is predicted to be accomplished over the following two weeks, celebration sources mentioned.

  • LDF govt most corrupt in Kerala’s historical past: DK Shivakumar

    By Express News Service
    KOZHIKODE: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar stated the current dispensation is probably the most corrupt authorities within the historical past of the state. Delivering his key observe deal with on the valedictory perform of the ‘Aishwarya Kerala Yathra’ within the district, he claimed that as per AICC survey, the UDF will bag 80 per cent of the full seats within the coming meeting election.

    “Under LDF, Kerala saw no growth. That should be changed. The whole country is looking at Kerala as you are the most educated state in India,” he stated.Shivakumar alleged there was a BJP-Left nexus within the state. “We have to ensure that BJP gains no foothold in the state,” he urged partymen.

    IUML state president Panakad Hyderali Shihab Thangal inaugurated the occasion. Yatra chief Ramesh Chennithala, Congress leaders Oomman Chandy, Mullapally Ramachandran, MK Raghavan, MP, IUML leaders PK Kunjalikutty, KPA Majeed and MK Muneer, CMP chief CP John and KC Joseph, amongst others spoke.

  • Appointments to govt posts based mostly on ‘Kamal critieria’, says Chennithala

    By Express News Service
    KOZHIKODE: Taking a jibe on the State Chalachithra Academy chairman Kamal, Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala mentioned the federal government appointments are made based mostly on the Kamal standards. He was referring to Kamal’s letter to the cultural minister the place the director pointed to loyalty to the CPM as one the qualities for regularising 4 contract employees within the Academy.

    “Jobs through the Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) are given only to CPM supporters,” Chennithala alleged. Commenting on the federal government’s resolution to regularise 114 contract employees of C-DIT, he mentioned the illegality of such appointment has even been identified by the Supreme Court. “But we have a strange government that implements court verdicts selectively. The LDF government has carried out 3 lakh back-door appointments in its four-and-half-year stint. All such inductions would be looked into if the UDF comes to power,” he mentioned.

    Chennithala known as out the choice to increase the validity of PSC rank lists by six months. “That is a gimmick to shield the widespread criticism against the illegal regularisation,” he mentioned. Responding to MP Ok Sudhakaran’s controversial remark about Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur on Tuesday, Chennithala mentioned that it ought to have been averted. Sudhakaran had mentioned Pinarayi was the son of a toddy tapper. The obvious casteist slander was extensively criticised.

  • UDF attempting to divide Kerala on communal traces: Vijayaraghavan

    By Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM state secretary in-charge A Vijayaraghavan has alleged that the Congress-led UDF has been attempting to divide Kerala society on communal traces. While UDF has been utilizing its state tour for spreading false campaigns, BJP is resorting to communal campaigns through the go to of its nationwide president JP Nadda. He mentioned the Left authorities in Kerala has been elevating different insurance policies towards the financial insurance policies of the Centre. 

    CPM has determined to organise main agitations towards the BJP authorities on the Centre.Vijayaraghavan alleged that anti-democratic makes an attempt are being made to silence the continued farmers’ agitation in Delhi, with even sedition fees being levelled towards those that criticise the Union authorities’s insurance policies. 

    ‘Reports baseless’Vijayaraghavan denied studies that the celebration had corrected him for his remarks towards the Muslim League. “The party correcting me is a matter of pride for me. If there are any limitations or lapses on our part, then the party is sure to correct us. The Communist party’s intervention in this regard is meant to correct us. However in this particular matter, media reports are not based on facts,” he mentioned.

    ‘Won’t maintain fielding similar individuals’The CPM will keep away from the identical candidates from contesting within the elections, Vijayaraghavan mentioned. The celebration is not going to area the identical individuals repeatedly. The celebration will current to the lots a consultant panel for the polls. Those who contested twice and gained will likely be averted.

    CPM urges Cong to make stance clear on MP’s commentsT’Puram: Terming senior Congress chief Ok Sudhakaran’s comment towards Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ‘heinous’, the CPM on Thursday urged the Congress to make its stance clear within the matter. “Congress leaders ought to make clear their stance on Sudhakaran and his remarks. The chief minister has been insulted through the Congress’ Aishwarya Kerala Yatra.

    Sudhakaran has been making deeply insulting remarks and has been indulging within the character assassination of the CM,” mentioned CPM state secretary-in-charge A Vijayaraghavan. He mentioned such heinous remarks towards the CM had been made by a frontrunner who’s a sitting MP. Such statements can’t have a spot in a contemporary society and ought to be condemned, he mentioned.

    ‘UDF took up Sabarimala issue as easy way for electoral victory’

    T’Puram: Underscoring its resolution to not take UDF’s Sabarimala bait, the CPM management mentioned individuals would reject the opposition’s technique to mislead. “UDF has taken up this topic (Sabarimala issue) as an easy way for electoral victory after Oommen Chandy assumed charge of its campaign,” the CPM alleged in an announcement.  The challenge is at the moment earlier than the Supreme Court. The subsequent plan of action can be taken solely after the courtroom takes a name on this regard.

    The CPM mentioned that it’s of the view that after the Court points its verdict, talks ought to be held with all sections of individuals to reach at a consensus. The UDF’s plan to usher in a laws if it involves energy is aimed toward duping the frequent man, noticed the CPM. Briefing reporters on celebration choices after the state committee meet, secretary-in-charge A Vijayaraghavan flayed the UDF stance. “When the matter is already before the Supreme Court, how can they say a legislation would be brought in? That is just not possible,” he mentioned.