Pinarayi dancing to the tunes of Modi: B.V. Srinivas
The Hindu
Youth Congress national president B.V. Srinivas has alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is dancing to the tunes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Youth Congress president B.V. Srinivas has alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is dancing to the tunes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing a public meeting in Thrissur on Thursday in connection with the State conference of the Youth Congress, he alleged that there was a nexus between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“Whenever Youth Congress workers stage protests against the BJP, whether on the issue of disqualifying Rahul Gandhi or on price hike, they have been brutally lathicharged and attacked by the police of the Left Democratic Front government. This shows the double face of the Pinarayi government,” he said.
“By disqualifying Rahul Gandhi they actually disqualified democracy. They unleashed umpteen lies against the Gandhi family. Their lies have been exhausted,” he said.
The Youth Congress in Kerala was a model for the other States, he added.
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