Campaign fervour peaks in Kerala as countdown begins

The fervourous poll campaigning has peaked in the South Indian state of Kerala with hardly four more days for the State to go to the polls. Meanwhile, CM Pinarayi Vijayan had said that fake documents are being readied to cook up allegations against the Government and ‘lie bombs’ are to blast in the coming days.

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): The fervourous poll campaigning has peaked in the South Indian state of Kerala with hardly four more days for the State to go to the polls. The long list of star campaigners to reach Kerala in the final lap of poll campaigns include the Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Left national leaders Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat and Prakash Karat.

The Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) led Left Democratic Front (LDF) has set all hopes on the incumbent Chief Minister and CPM leader Pinarayi Vijayan as their star campaigner. CM Pinarayi Vijayan had said that fake documents are being readied to cook up allegations against the Government and ‘lie bombs’ are to blast in the coming days. Vijayan moves a step ahead to fight the allegations that the Opposition is suspected to rake up against the LDF and its leaders during the last round of campaigns.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) led by Congress says the LDF can justify and defend any allegations in the name of the ‘lie bombs’ now. The UDF leaders are firm on their stand asking CM Vijayan to reveal whether he is the ‘lie bomb’. KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran has already stated that the CM has been referring to the ‘bomb’ which is to blast in his own party.

Meanwhile, a new controversy has erupted in the issue of bogus votes which has been a major discussion in the political circles in Kerala of late. The CPM alleged that Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has uploaded the data on bogus voters from the IP address of a company based in Singapore. CPM leader M A Baby said that there are grave legal tangles in the matter of handing over personal data including pictures to a foreign country. Baby said that the private data of the individuals have been transferred to a foreign company without approval and permission.

Ramesh Chennithala had released some data claimed to be that of the 4.5 lakh bogus voter through a site named 'Operation Twins'. Chennithala claims that there is no issue of data privacy in the released data.

However, voters, including those from the Ottappalam constituency, have come up stating that the released information is erroneous. On the other twin brothers have been mentioned as bogus voters as per Chennithala’s report. The twin siblings said that they would make a formal complaint to the authority against such an allegation.

With this, the discussions revolving around the truth behind the bogus vote allegations are sure to continue.