Congress is BJP’s B-team, pre-election surveys are nothing but paid news: CM
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday continued his tirade against the Congress alleging that the party had “drastically deviated from its secular legacy.”
Addressing the media here, Mr. Vijayan said the Congress was not interested in taking on the BJP ideologically and politically because it had “degenerated itself into a B-team of the BJP.”
“The ow of Congress leaders to the BJP continues without an end in sight. It’s no longer news.
Children of former Congress Chief Ministers are now with the BJP. Onefourth of the BJP candidates in the State are former Congress leaders,” said Mr. Vijayan.
Rejecting the criticism by the Congress that he was not speaking against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister said he “did not need their certicate” for that.
Mr. Vijayan rejected prepoll survey results as “fabricated and paid surveys”. He alleged that some groups were working overtime by continuously supplying “half-truths and exaggerations to brainwash people.”
“Surveys have lost their credibility. In the last Assembly elections, some candidates who were predicted to lose are currently Ministers in the State Cabinet. The scientic base and methodology of such surveys are all hidden. The Assembly elections dumped the surveys,” he said, adding that “these are like paid news.”
Mr. Vijayan reiterated that he was criticising the Congress because it was not genuine in its attack against the RSS and its ideologies. The Congress had stood away from the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), he said.
IUML legacy
Mr. Vijayan said Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leaders were trying to justify the Congress because the former had little choice. “The downfall of the Congress has been huge. That party should salvage its secular legacy,” he said. He said there would not be any “undercurrent” against the LDF. “Rather there will be an overcurrent. And the LDF will sweep this elections in Kerala.”