KOLLAM: N K Premachandran MP on Sunday hit out at CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan for his statement that the former is getting close with the BJP.

Calling me a ‘sanghi’ in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating a project after a wait of 44 years, then Pinarayi Vijayan is a real ‘sanghi’ who postponed the inauguration of Kochi Metro thrice for Modi, said Premachandran. Kodiyeri should say that whether I or the chief minister is real ‘sanghi’. I have neither directly nor indirectly invited the prime minister for the inauguration of Kollam bypass. BJP leaders invited him for the inauguration. CPM is playing politics in the name of it, he added.