The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) on Saturday used the February 7 protest planned by Karnataka’s Congress government in New Delhi against Union government policies to slam the Congress-led Opposition in the State.
Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal, speaking to reporters here on Saturday, described the Karnataka government decision as ‘‘poetic justice.”
CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan, speaking to reporters in Thrissur, welcomed the Karnataka government decision. He said it endorsed the stand taken by the LDF government in Kerala. It should open the eyes of the Congress party in Kerala, he said.
In Kerala, the Congress-led Opposition UDF has declined to join the LDF government in the protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on February 8 against the Centre’s neglect of Kerala. On Friday, the State Assembly had passed a resolution against the Union government for alleged trespasses on the State’s fiscal powers in the absence of the UDF members.
While the LDF government pinpoints the BJP government as the prime culprit for the State’s woes, the UDF considers the Centre’s policies as one among the reasons that has aggravated the financial crisis. The UDF holds that the LDF government’s financial mismanagement and extravagance are primarily responsible for the current situation.
