Though the candidates seeking re-election from Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala in the upcoming election may be violating the Representation of Peoples Act here and there, there is one area which unites them.

All these candidates, irrespective of the party they belong to, claim the kind of achievements they have made during their tenure as member of parliament. The massive infrastructure push they brought to the State, the number of highways commissioned during their period, the container terminal port and many central government establishments which  they set up in the State during the last ten years make an impressive list.

The Adani Group initiated the measures to build Vizhinjam International Container Terminal at my instance. It was me who explained in detail the potential of such a port to Gautam Adani whom I meet in an airlines queue. The man was so impressed with the information provided me and he issued immediate orders to his company managers to set in motion the process of bidding for the container terminal,” said Sasi Tharoor, the three-time MP who is seeling relection from Thiruvananthapuram as a Congress candidate.

Even the Muslim League MPs , E T Mohammed Basheer and M P Abdussamad  Samadani, who have no love lost for the “communal and fascist” Narendra Modi Government wax eloquence when they speak about the development projects initiated by the Center and how they managed to bring those schemes in their constituencies of Ponnani and Malappuram. One may have to write columns of reports if the details of infrastructure projects of the Central Government which they implemented in their constituencies. All these 20 MPs (19 from the Congress-led UDF and the lone CPI(M)) are unanimous in their claims that the constituencies they represent have never seen this kind of development in infrastructure and social schemes at any time in post-independent India.

They are equally unanimous in their professed mission to save India from “communal and fascist” forces. The MPs who represented the State during the 2004 to 2014 UPA regime led by Manmohan Singh  government do not have any such claims to make on infrastructure or social developments. The Christians in the State, irrespective of which side of the BJP they belong to are unanimous in their view that only one particular minority community was benefited during the decade long UPA rule.

All the 20 MPs seeking re-election explain the measures they took to fight the Covid-19 pandemic while the LDF Government led by Pinarayi Vijayan failed on all counts. The way the State government handled the Covid-19 pandemic was proof of how ill-equipped the administration  was in taking on the situation,” Leader of Opposition V D Satheeshan had said many times in the past.

Their ire towards the Centre arises out of the denial of IIT, AIIMS and more international airports to the State. But the MPs from the State have failed to convince the central governments in the past  about the significance of IITs and AIIMS in Kerala. Even Tamil Nadu, ruled by BJP’s eternal enemies DMK have managed to get what they asked for,” said P Rajan, author and veteran scribe.

Other than the tags of communalists and fascists, the Kerala political parties do no have much to say against the Narendra Modi Government. But Binoy Viswam, the intellectual face of global Communist movements who is also rated as a political astrologer, said on Thursday that 2024 election will  see the defeat of Narendra Modi Government. “There is no possibility of Narendra Modi winning the 2024 election. The MPs from the CPI(M) and the CPI would decide who should be the Prime Minister after this election,” said Viswam. kumar chellappan n KOCHI

Though the candidates seeking re-election from Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala in the upcoming election may be violating the Representation of Peoples Act here and there, there is one area which unites them.

All these candidates, irrespective of the party they belong to, claim the kind of achievements they have made during their tenure as member of parliament. The massive infrastructure push they brought to the State, the number of highways commissioned during their period, the container terminal port and many central government establishments which  they set up in the State during the last ten years make an impressive list.

The Adani Group initiated the measures to build Vizhinjam International Container Terminal at my instance. It was me who explained in detail the potential of such a port to Gautam Adani whom I meet in an airlines queue. The man was so impressed with the information provided me and he issued immediate orders to his company managers to set in motion the process of bidding for the container terminal,” said Sasi Tharoor, the three-time MP who is seeling relection from Thiruvananthapuram as a Congress candidate.

Even the Muslim League MPs , E T Mohammed Basheer and M P Abdussamad  Samadani, who have no love lost for the “communal and fascist” Narendra Modi Government wax eloquence when they speak about the development projects initiated by the Center and how they managed to bring those schemes in their constituencies of Ponnani and Malappuram. One may have to write columns of reports if the details of infrastructure projects of the Central Government which they implemented in their constituencies. All these 20 MPs (19 from the Congress-led UDF and the lone CPI(M)) are unanimous in their claims that the constituencies they represent have never seen this kind of development in infrastructure and social schemes at any time in post-independent India.

They are equally unanimous in their professed mission to save India from “communal and fascist” forces. The MPs who represented the State during the 2004 to 2014 UPA regime led by Manmohan Singh  government do not have any such claims to make on infrastructure or social developments. The Christians in the State, irrespective of which side of the BJP they belong to are unanimous in their view that only one particular minority community was benefited during the decade long UPA rule.

All the 20 MPs seeking re-election explain the measures they took to fight the Covid-19 pandemic while the LDF Government led by Pinarayi Vijayan failed on all counts. The way the State government handled the Covid-19 pandemic was proof of how ill-equipped the administration  was in taking on the situation,” Leader of Opposition V D Satheeshan had said many times in the past.

Their ire towards the Centre arises out of the denial of IIT, AIIMS and more international airports to the State. But the MPs from the State have failed to convince the central governments in the past  about the significance of IITs and AIIMS in Kerala. Even Tamil Nadu, ruled by BJP’s eternal enemies DMK have managed to get what they asked for,” said P Rajan, author and veteran scribe.

Other than the tags of communalists and fascists, the Kerala political parties do no have much to say against the Narendra Modi Government. But Binoy Viswam, the intellectual face of global Communist movements who is also rated as a political astrologer, said on Thursday that 2024 election will  see the defeat of Narendra Modi Government. “There is no possibility of Narendra Modi winning the 2024 election. The MPs from the CPI(M) and the CPI would decide who should be the Prime Minister after this election,” said Viswam.