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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reason to thanks its bête-noire Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan for bestowing political mileage.
Spelling out the importance of the party that has been his biggest enemy, the Kerala chief said most of the Congress leaders were waiting for a call to join the BJP.
Congress was in a ‘pathetic’ situation and most of its leaders were waiting for a call to join the BJP, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday while taking a jibe at the party during the debate in the state assembly on a no-confidence motion moved by it against his government.
The Congress was not able to elect its leader while seniors were describing each other as “BJP agents”, he said and claimed most of the leaders were waiting for a call from the BJP to join it.
Though in a lighter mood, but the Kerala chief minister had endorsed that it was BJP and not his own Communist Party of India (Marxist) that emerge as the first choice for the Congress leaders to take shelter.
Interestingly, on Ayodhya issue, it was Congress and the BJP on veteran Communist leaders’ radar. “Even on the Ayodhya issue, they had double standards. Some supported while some opposed,” Vijayan said.
He was referring to the leadership issue faced by the national party with a section demanding collective leadership and another reposing faith in the Gandhi family. “While they have moved a no-confidence motion here, another no-trust motion is ensuing in Delhi. There, their leaders are describing each other as BJP agents. Senior leader Kapil Sibal had to openly say he was not one. However, later he withdrew the statement,” Vijayan said.
Vijayan also said the Congress had said in the 1980s that the Left front will not come in power in Kerala ever again. But, it “came to power four times after that.”
