Monday, May 16, 2011: With the Congress-led UDF barely making it to power, Kerala’s chief minister-in-waiting Oommen Chandy admits the Left will be a formidable opposition but says he is confident of countering them through ‘pro-people programmes’ like the Right to Education act.
Chandy, who led the UDF to victory by edging out the Left combine by a narrow margin of just four votes, said he would handle the challenge with ease. While the UDF finished with 72 seats, just one more than needed to take power in the 140-member Kerala assembly, the Left was close behind with 68 seats. The CPM is the largest party in the state with 45 seats. The thin majority which the UDF obtained in the assembly polls will not be a problem for the government, said Chandy.
A priority would be to honour the scheme of Re.1 per kg rice for all the card holders in the below poverty category and rice at Rs.2 for all in the above poverty category. Analysing his past performance, Chandy admitted that in his first tenure he could not give the required impetus to agriculture and allied sectors.
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Chandy will be a Bad CM as he will yield to religious/ caste sectarians voted him to the post and he will be yielding to the wishes of corrupt corporate houses as they funded him and his party.
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