PM Modi meets elected Kerala BJP leaders, says state fed up with LDF, UDF

Prime Minister (PM) 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 LDF and UDF.

"It is clear that Kerala is fed up with the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) and is looking to the BJP-NDA with great hope. Therefore, elected members from BJP-NDA will work at the grassroots and address the challenges faced by the people," Modi said at the meeting attended by BJP general secretary organisation BL Santosh, Kerala unit chief Rajeev Chandrashekhar, and BJP's first-ever mayor in Kerala, VV Rajesh of Thiruvananthapuram.

The meeting was held at 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 reacting to the BJP victory in municipal corporation of Kerala's capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, where the party got its mayor for the first time after ousting the LDF’s four-decade dominance.

The PM said the gathering discussed a wide range of subjects, notable ways to deepen the BJP’s connection with the people, further the 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.

The PM had recently nominated Master, a teacher, to the Rajya Sabha.