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98 Left workers join BJP ahead of Assembly polls in Kerala ANI | Updated: Feb 24, 2021 09:26 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], February 24 (ANI): In a major boost to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala ahead of Assembly polls, as many as 98 members of Left parties joined the local unit of BJP in the presence of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
Speaking to ANI, BJP leader VV Rajesh confirmed the news and said the new members who joined the party offered to convert the local Communist Party of India (Marxist) local office to the BJP office. Today, 98 CPI(M) party members joined BJP under the leadership of Mukul Prabhakaran who was former Gram Panchayat president and CPI(M) area Committee member. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi welcomed them, he said.
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Joshi challenged the incumbent LDF establishment, comparing the “successful” NDA government at the Centre against the Kerala one. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi. | Photo Credit: Twitter
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The Union Minister said that the state government is embroiled in cases such as gold smuggling, while several youths in Kerala are unemployed
He also claimed that the Congress and Left are doing ‘kushti’ in Kerala, and ‘dosti’ in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu
Thiruvananthapuram: With the key Assembly elections in Kerala barely a couple of months away, the Bharatiya Janata Party is taking the fight to the den of the Congress party after Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday called the Congress a party for “dalalis”.
A day after Rahul Gandhi took out a tractor rally in Wayanad in solidarity with protesting farmers, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress leader, saying he was trying to become an actor on tractor . He also hit out at the poll-bound state s two rival fronts, ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and opposition Congress-led UDF, saying they were fighting Kushti in Kerala but have Dosti in Delhi and described it as hypocricy . Rahul Gandhi is trying to become an actor on tractor, Joshi, the BJP s Kerala Assembly election incharge, told a press conference here. After taking out a tractor rally in his constituency on Monday in solidarity with the agitating farmers, Gandhi had said agriculture is the only business that belongs to Bharat Mata and called upon the people to force the government to take back the three farm laws.