THIRUVANATHAPURAM: BJP got into aggressive campaign mode on Sunday, with Union home minister Amit Shah directly targeting Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and saying that if BJP was given an opportunity to rule the state for the next five years, it would turn Kerala into the number one state in India.
Shah was addressing the concluding event of the party’s Vijay Yathra. In a contest where LDF and UDF are the primary players, BJP and NDA hopes to be a decisive disruptor in more than one-third of the 140 constituencies that go the polls on April 6.
Shah rejected Vijayan’s claims that the Union government was using the central agencies against the LDF government.
“I want the CM Pinarayi Vijayan to answer a few questions. Whether the lady accused in the gold smuggling case was a frequent visitor to CM’s official residence? Did CM’s office try to influence customs officials when the gold smuggling was detected?” he asked. “The LDF and UDF governments have made Kerala a centre of corruption,” he said.