Whether or not it was a deft strategy to win back a section of votes which the Congress-IUML combine lost to the CPI (M)-led LDF in the three-tier local bodies’ polls in November, KPCC president V.M. Sudheeran’s speeches during his ongoing Kerala Raksha Yatra in Kozhikode district were loaded with anti-Hindutva themes and the rise of the RSS after the BJP came to power at the Centre, a report said on 10 January.
Coming down heavily on Narendra Modi government, he said that the Prime Minister had become a crazy NRI modernist who thinks only of visiting foreign countries. The BJP government was engaged in uplifting the industrialists rather than caring for the welfare of the poor in the country. He said that labour laws framed several years ago to protect the interests of the working class had been sabotaged to suit the requirements of corporates. The much-hyped Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was a bogus campaign as it had either failed to take off or lost in slogans.