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POLL MATTERS: BJP vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu speaking at a meet-the-press programme in Kozhikode on Friday. — Photo: S. Ramesh Kurup
KOZHIKODE : The country will face mid-term polls soon after the Assembly elections to five States, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu has said. Addressing a `meet-the-press' programme organised by Calicut Press Club on Friday, Mr. Naidu said nobody was happy with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre. Samajwadi Party (SP), BSP and Telegana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) were opposing the Government. Also, the MDMK would soon quit the UPA Government. The Left parties, which were extending outside support to the UPA Government, were not happy either, he said. The BJP vice-president said it was only the anti-BJP stand that was cementing the ties between the UPA and Left parties. In Kerala, both the LDF and the UDF were hobnobbing with communal parties, including the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The LDF would put more pressure on the UPA Government if it won the elections. He said the campaign in Kerala and West Bengal did not carry any conviction. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were not attacking the CPI(M). Also both were avoiding campaigns in major cities. The basic issue in Kerala was lack of development. Even though 20 MPs (in the Lok Sabha) support the UPA, no special project or railway project had been sanctioned for the State. The largest migration in the country after Bihar was from Kerala. If there was development in the State, why should people go outside in search of livelihood?
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