THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb Kumar accused Kerala of lagging behind Tripura in infrastructure development. He said that the people of Tripura ended the communist rule when they got the chance. He was speaking at a press conference held as part of the BJP's election campaign.

If you vote for Modi, there will be a government with twin-engines. The CPM and the Congress united in Bengal, are in opposition here. The Congress and the CPM are one. The Left Front had supported the congress government in the centre. Political assassinations in Tripura had declined after the communist government was defeated. He said the time of seeing people on the basis of religion is over.

Kumar, who is in Kerala campaigning for the NDA said that BJP can replicate the success of Tripura in the state as people are fed up with the alternate rule of LDF and UDF every five years.

Muslims would be deported to Bangladesh if the BJP assumes power. There was no problem even against a Muslim brother in Tripura. It is the propaganda of the Communists that the BJP is anti-minority. Gone are the days of politics in the caste-religion equation. He pointed that this is the age of development politics.

"When people of Tripura felt that Narendra Modi is committed for Tripura they voted for us. Tripura after the BJP government came to power made big development strides that the Left government could not achieve in their 25 years of rule," he said.

He said if in Tripura people chose BJP the same could happen in Kerala too.

"It is time for a change in Kerala. I was asked how it could be done in Tripura -from zero to form the government. Only BJP can do it as we did it. I think it can be replicated in Kerala. As in Kerala already BJP have started by opening account," said Biplab Kumar Deb.

Giving the development index and growth achieved by Tripura, he said Kerala is lagging behind in development.

"The Left can't develop themselves than how they develop the state. Anti-Left sentiment is not only in Kerala but all across the country. There is no leftism in Kerala. Do you think Karl Marx has said all this being done by Left in Kerala," he said.

Further, he said that in West Bengal, Congress and Left are fighting polls together but in Kerala, they are opposing each other. "This is hypocrisy and adjustment politics. People of Kerala should forget the LDF and UDF and should give BJP a chance to develop the state," he added.

The election for 140-member Kerala Assembly in 14 districts will be held in a single phase on April 6. The counting of votes will be held on May 2.