Kerala needs '3rd front' against Cong, CPI(M): Modi

Launching his party's Lok Sabha election campaign in Kerala, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today said the state was badly in need of a third front against the coalitions led by Congress and CPI-M which have alternated in power "wasting" opportunities of the 'God's Own Country.'
Addressing a wel attended party rally at the Shankumugham Beach here, Modi wanted the people to introspect whether they want to be ruled alternately by the Congress-led UDF and the CPI(M)-led LDF.
Holding that there was no qualitative difference between the two rival fronts, he said for the last several decades they had been "hoodwinking" the people by engaging themselves in a shadow boxing.

Seizing on the T P Chandrasekharan murder case now dominating the political debate in the state, he said had it not been for the "politics of adjustment" between the two fronts, the slain RMP leader's wife Rema need not have gone on a fast demanding a CBI probe into the murder of her husband.
He alleged the Communist Party did not believe in democracy and wanted instability for survival whether in Kerala or outside.
Under the rule of these coalitions, Kerala had wasted its huge potential in areas like tourism, holistic medicine and service sectors, he said.
"Why do lakhs of youth from this state go abroad in search of jobs, leaving their parents and beloved ones behind ? It is time that you introspected who is responsible for the plight. These two fronts looted this sacred land. How can we go forward without bringing about a change to this situation ?" he said.