With just 10 days left for Lok Sabha polling day on April 26, opposing fronts in Kerala have drastically sharpened their attacks on each other.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the ball rolling on Monday by using the bully pulpit of his high office to observe, without naming any person or dwelling on details, that the “Chief Minister and his daughter” were subjects of a Central investigation.
He also tied the CPI(M) leadership in Thrissur to the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank scam and promised “wrongdoers” legal retribution and “panicked depositors” the return of their “looted” savings.