Kollam contests mirror larger LDF-UDF battle for Kerala’s coastline
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The electoral plot in many coastal seats of Kollam mirrors the larger UDF-LDF fight across the fishermen-dominated constituencies along Kerala s nearly 600-km coastal belt from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod.
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Kollam, the district right next to Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, is showcasing a critical outing for both the ruling LDF and opposition UDF. This hotbed of trade unionism, famous for its once robust but now distressed cashew processing factories and major fisheries and tourism sectors, is hosting a pitched battle between the rival fronts for wooing the numerically significant fisherfolk along its expansive coastal line, where an influential Church has chosen to throw itself into the ring by issuing pastoral letter to its Latin Catholic followers who form a major chunk of fisherfolk across the state strongly disproving the LDF government’s alleged plan to a
Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday slammed the NDA government at the Centre alleging that they were protecting the interests of corporates and not farmers, and demanded withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws, against which farmers are protesting near Delhi. Averring that the ongoing farmers agitation was one of the fiercest and most iconic of such protests ever witnessed in the country, Vijayan said farmers were the food-givers of the country and so their demand should be seen as the general interest of the nation. While inaugurating a Left front-supported meeting at the Martyr scolumn here to express solidarity with the agitating farmers, he also accused the union government of taking back to back tormenting steps against ryots and attempting to quell the protests by creating communal division in the society.
Send Averring that the ongoing farmers agitation was one of the fiercest and most iconic of such protests ever witnessed in the country, Vijayan said farmers were the food-givers of the country and so their demand should be seen as the general interest of the nation.
Thiruvananthapuram:
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday slammed the NDA government at the Centre alleging that they were protecting the interests of corporates and not farmers, and demanded withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws, against which farmers are protesting near Delhi.Â
Averring that the ongoing farmers agitation was one of the fiercest and most iconic of such protests ever witnessed in the country, Vijayan said farmers were the food-givers of the country and so their demand should be seen as the general interest of the nation.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (File)
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday slammed the NDA government at the Centre alleging that they were protecting the interests of corporates and not farmers, and demanded withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws, against which farmers are protesting near Delhi.
Averring that the ongoing farmers’ agitation was one of the fiercest and most iconic of such protests ever witnessed
in the country, Vijayan said farmers were the food-givers of the country and so their demand should be seen as the general
interest of the nation.
While inaugurating a Left front-supported meeting at the Martyr’scolumn here to express solidarity with the agitating farmers, he also accused the union government of taking back to back tormenting steps against ryots and attempting to quell the protests by creating communal division in the society.