CM to infuse more vigour into LDF campaign by hitting the road for nearly three weeks

Thiruvananthapuram Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan embarks on a 24-day tour to boost LDF's Lok Sabha campaign against BJP and Congress.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will embark on a 24-day State-wide tour on March 30 to attempt to infuse more energy into the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) Lok Sabha election campaign.

Mr. Vijayan hopes to mount an electioneering blitz to thwart rival campaigns focusing on the perceived disadvantages of incumbency in the State.

He reportedly seeks to cast protecting democracy at the centre of the State’s political conversation to eclipse rival talking points.

The LDF seeks to make the Lok Sabha polls a referendum on the “existential peril Sangh Parivar forces pose” to the country’s secular and federal foundations if they ascend to power at the centre for a third consecutive time.

Mr. Vijayan will have three campaign stops characterised by public rallies and voter interactions in each LS constituency.

The LDF also aspires to build on the momentum created by Mr. Vijayan’s anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act rallies and the State cabinet’s public outreach and grievance redressal programme, NavKerala Sadas.

In an overwhelmingly secular State with a sizeable number of minorities, an estimated 44% of the population as per the 2011 census, the LDF wants to crystallise the palpable public disquiet about the ethnic violence in Manipur, the CAA, NCR, Triple Talaq and Uniform Civil Code into pro-ruling front votes.