THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the opposition is trying to stain the image of the government in the Sprinklr deal. The government is not going to go behind controversies, the chief minister said while participating in the weekly program.

Pinarayi said the people who think the government should not be lauded for facing and fighting the pandemic well think of defaming us. Now it is not the time to go behind controversies. The people are seeing and judging everything. Such controversies should be neglected as the state is passing through a very tough time. The efforts taken by Kerala to fight COVID-19 and its achievements today have surprised even many developed countries. This is a peculiarity of Kerala model. Kerala has now become the cynosure of the world on how it tackled it. The chief minister said as various agencies of the world and developed countries understood about Kerala, they may consider helping us.