PM meets Kerala BJP leaders

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Kerala BJP leaders who have recently won Municipal Corporation and panchayat elections and said the state was fed up with the politics of corruption and convenience being practised by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and United Democratic Front (UDF)."It is clear that Kerala is fed up with the LDF and UDF and is looking to the BJP-NDA with great hope. Therefore, elected members from the BJP-NDA will work at the grassroots and address the challenges faced by the people," Modi said at the meeting attended also by BJP general secretary organisation BL Santosh and Kerala unit chief Rajeev Chandrashekhar and BJP's first-ever mayor in Kerala VV Rajesh of Thiruvananthapuram.

The meeting was held at the PM's residence, 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.

"Hosted Kerala BJP panchayat members, municipality members and members of corporations from across Kerala, including the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, where the BJP was blessed with a historic mandate," Modi said after the meeting.

The PM said the gathering discussed a wide range of subjects, notably ways to deepen the BJP’s connect with the people, further good governance agenda and promote ‘Ease of Living.’

"In the meeting with Kerala BJP elected representatives paid homage to every worker who has worked hard to build the party over the years. It is due to their selfless efforts that we have grown in the state. In the coming times the BJP will grow even further in Kerala," said the PM who had recently penned a letter to Rajya Sabha MP C Sadanandan Master, whose legs had been hacked by Left front cadres who punished him for professing a political ideology different from theirs.