Congress and Communists foes in Kerala, Best Friends Forever elsewhere: PM Modi

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a swipe at the Congress and Communist parties, which are making efforts to form a strong alternative against the BJP at the Centre, pointing out that they are each other’s enemies in Kerala, but in other states they are BFFs—Best Friends Forever.

Speaking at the conclusion ceremony of the BJP state unit’s padayatra at the Central Stadium here, Modi pilloried the opposition claiming it lacks a roadmap for the nation’s progress and is, therefore, convinced it won’t win the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, due to which its leaders resort to abusing him.

“The Congress and the Communists are each other’s enemies in Kerala, but in other states, they are BFFs. BFFs means best friends forever,” the PM said.

He said the Congress accused the Communist Chief Minister (Pinarayi Vijayan) of being involved in corruption and scams and termed the Left government as fascist.

“The Communists in response, lathi-charged the Congress workers and termed their previous administrations as being involved in various scams. However, outside Kerala, at the INDI alliance meetings, they sit together, eat samosas and biscuits, and have tea,” the PM said, pointing out the incongruity.

“So in Thiruvananthapuram they say one thing and in Delhi they say something else. The people of Kerala will answer this betrayal in the coming LS polls.”

Attacking the Congress, Modi, in an apparent reference to the Gandhi family, said the track record of the grand old party shows how it managed to keep the country under the control of one family for decades.

“For them (Congress) the interests of that family are above that of all other families in the country,” he alleged, adding that the Communists were now showing the same colours.

In a veiled reference to Rahul Gandhi, who represents Wayanad seat in Lok Sabha, Modi also said that the Communists were advising the Congress to keep its ‘Yuvraj’ (prince) out of Kerala.

During his speech at the party programme, Modi urged Kerala’s people to bless the saffron party with seats in double digits in the 2024 LS polls.