Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to BJP members in Kunnamkulam and promises action in the Karuvannur Case

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the state administration run by the Left Front, saying that the BJP will do everything it took to ensure that the depositors of the Karuvannur bank had their money back. He was speaking to the crowd on Monday as part of the BJP’s election campaign in Kunnamkulam.

Modi referred to the Thriprayar Sree Rama Temple as South India’s Ayodhya during his address. He also said he was happy to be in Kerala for the approaching Thrissur Pooram and Vishu festivals.

“While the country is progressing under the leadership of the NDA, development projects in Kerala are being trailed by the UDF and LDF.” The leftist administration tries to obstruct efforts by the federal government to create a national highway. “The left’s tendency is to oppose development, regardless of whether they are in power in Tripura or Bengal,” the speaker said.

Modi also alluded to political killings occurring on Keralan college campuses in his address, obliquely referencing Sidharth’s death at Pookode Veterinary College. He went on to say that groups that undermine social peace have support from the state government.

Modi said that the left administration is coming up with new methods to plunder the people while criticizing the state government’s incompetence in handling the Karuvannur scandal. Without holding back, Modi pointed out that the Karuvannur scandal had benefitted CPM politicians.

Waving to party workers on Monday during the election campaign in Kunnamkulam, Trissur, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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“An instance of the left’s effort to embezzle public funds is the Karuvannur bank scandal. The bank where hard-earned money from middle-class and lower-middle-class households was invested was plundered by CPM officials. The funds accumulated and placed at Karuvannur for the purpose of arranging daughter marriages were rejected. Because of Karuvannur’s deception, parents were unable to plan their daughter’s marriage,” he said.

Taking aim at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, PM Modi said that for the last three years, Vijayan had been spreading false information about the scam, while the Modi administration had been the one to retrieve Rs. 90 crore from the con artists involved in the cooperative scandal. Modi pledged to return the money that customers had put in cooperative banks, such as Karuvannur. He continued by saying that Karuvannur will experience the same fate as the rest of the nation, where scam victims had received back payments of Rs. 17,000 crore from these con artists over the last 10 years.