KOTTAYAM: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor MP has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raising the Sabarimala issue during the election campaign. Accusing the Prime Minister of trying to divide the people, Tharoor said that Modi raised the Sabarimala issue as he had nothing else to say. He also said that the PM is promoting communalism by talking about the Sabarimala issue.

"Modi's remark that the LDF and the UDF are one is because he does not know about Kerala. He should remember that only the Congress has been strongly opposing the LDF in the state," Tharoor said. Claiming that a strong triangular contest was going on in Nemom, Tharoor added that the main competition was between the BJP and the UDF.