‘Lacks basic understanding’: Keralam CM Pinarayi Vijayan slams Rahul Gandhi, calls Congress ‘B-team’ of BJP | India News

“Rahul Gandhi is a national leader, yet he lacks the basic awareness of even a typical local Congress worker in Kerala; he simply refuses to learn from experience or mistakes. It is difficult to understand how he has fallen like this,” he said. “Rahul Gandhi and his Congress are the ‘B-Team’ of the BJP in the country, and yet its position is being accepted across India,” he added.The comments came a day after Rahul Gandhi accused the ruling Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) of colluding with the BJP. Launching the United Democratic Alliance (UDF) campaign in Kozhikode, Rahul said there are two sides in Kerala politics.“There are actually only two sides fighting here in Kerala. One is the UDF alliance, and the other is the partnership between BJP and LDF. UDF brings people together, listens to them and embraces and empowers them. LDF and their hidden partners divide people and crush them,” Rahul said.He also questioned the state government’s job promises. Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s national employment promise and the Kerala government’s promise, he said, “Modi ji promised 2 crore jobs at the national level. Kerala CM promised 40 lakh jobs in the state, and after a decade, you see they have not given a single job to people; in fact, they have destroyed jobs.”The Congress leader also said that both the BJP and the LDF do not consider themselves accountable to the people. “Neither the BJP nor the LDF believe they can answer to the people. They don’t believe the people of Kerala can question them,” he said.Kerala will go to polls in a single phase on April 9, with counting scheduled on May 4 The term of the current assembly will end on May 23