Sparing the Left Democratic Front and its government that rules the State and hitting hard at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi hele-hopped across southern Kerala on Tuesday addressing as many as four election meetings.
Taking the pulse of each region where he addressed the electorate, Mr. Gandhi touched upon local issues to establish a connect with the voters even as he weaved the Congress party’s national poll narrative of Mr. Modi’s ‘five-year misrule’ in all the meetings.
Addressing a campaign meeting of United Democratic Front candidate Anto Antony at Pathanamthitta, Mr. Gandhi, without mentioning the word Sabarimala, said the people of India had the right to pursue their religious faith and practices and the Congress had never opposed it.