Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday condemned the “attempt to malign” the state, before the election in April/May, through “orchestrated hate campaigns”, referring to controversy movies like ‘The Kerala Story’ and its sequel.
“… but the real ‘Kerala story’ is in our communal harmony and zero-poverty villages,” he said at the NDTV Kerala Power Play summit.
Vijayan also hailed the progress of the southern state under his leadership and that of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led ruling coalition.
Referring to the “other” coalition, i.e., the rival Congress-led UDF, he said: “When we came to power the state was in crisis. Education sector was on the backfoot… many schools were on the verge of being shut down. Health was also in need of attention… no doctors, no infrastructure.”
“The speciality of Kerala has always been the lakhs of people who work outside the state… and when they used to return to their hometowns, they used to think ‘nothing has changed’,” he said at the NDTV Kerala Power Play summit this afternoon.
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