Rajeev Chandrasekhar wangled an official invitation to Vizhinjam port commissioning: Govindan
Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan has accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar of wangling an official invitation to the commissioning of the Vizhinjam International Seaport through the Prime Minister's Office.
He alleged at a press conference here on Monday that Mr. Chandrasekhar had made a spectacle of himself by being on the dais hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival and resorting to sloganeering to put the BJP's political stamp on the national event. Mr. Govindan said the Kerala government bore the lion's share of the project cost. In contrast, the BJP-led Union government limited itself to a minimal viability gap funding loan.
He said the CPI(M) would organise many programmes to honour those who resisted the Emergency on June 29, the 50th anniversary of the Congress government's constitutional overreach.
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