‘Preparing ground for Sangh Parivar, Congress is a party waiting to join BJP in one jump’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan responded to the incident of Congress panchayat members joining the BJP in Mattathur. In a Facebook post, the chief minister said the congress is a party that is ready to join the BJP in one jump. He added that the Congress is trying to play power politics by fooling all sections of the people and prepare the ground for the Sangh Parivar. The chief minister's response was on the incident where eight Congress representatives in Mattathur panchayat in Thrissur resigned from the party and made a rebel president with the support of the BJP.

‘This shows that even those presently in Congress will not hesitate to join the BJP by the time darkness falls. The Congressmen have no conscience about changing the palm symbol to a lotus. The announcement of the Kerala Congress leadership that they will go to the BJP if they feel like it was implemented by their followers in Mattathur. It is clear from the local results that there is a BJP-Congress adjustment in many places of the state. They are continuing it without any hesitation. This willingness of the Congress to sell them is fueling the BJP's Kerala delusions,' the chief minister said.

CM’s FB post
The Congress is a party that is ready to join the BJP in one jump. That leap was seen in Mattathur in Thrissur. All the panchayat members who contested as Congress candidates and became panchayat members defected to the BJP camp and came to power. Only eight Congress members are with the UDF there. The BJP has taken them away without even leaving a single one for medicine.

In 2016, out of a total of 44 Congress MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh, 43, including the chief minister, had joined the NDA overnight. In Puducherry, which did not have a single MLA, the BJP took power in 2021 by sacking Congress members. In 2019, the entire Congress Legislative Party in Goa merged with the BJP. The Kerala model of all this is what happened in Mattathur. Congress leaders went with the BJP to prevent the LDF president from coming to that panchayat. They are openly saying that.

It is evident here that even those who are presently in the Congress will not hesitate to become BJP even when it is dark. Congressmen do not have a conscience to change the palm symbol to a lotus. The followers in Mattathur implemented the announcement of the Congress leadership in Kerala that they will go to the BJP if they feel like going. It is clear from the local results that there is a BJP-Congress adjustment in many places in the state. They are continuing it without any hesitation. This willingness of the Congress to sell them is what fuels the BJP's Kerala delusions.