Idukki: Defence Minister and veteran Congress leader A K Antony on Friday said CPM bastions across Kerala would collapse in the April 13 Assembly polls as the people were keen on ending the LDF rule to regain the "lost momentum" of the state. Addressing an election meeting of the Congress candidate E M Agasthy in Peerumade segment in the high-range Idukki district, Antony said bringing the UDF back to power was essential to put the state on the track of fast-paced progress.
"The LDF has made the state move like a bullock-cart. It is crucial for the state to regain the lost momentum for which the UDF should return to power," Antony said. If cash crops like rubber, tea and cardamom were fetching high prices now it was due to the policies of the UPA at the Centre, he claimed. In contrast, the LDF government did not take any initiative for the welfare of small and medium holders rearing cash crops, he alleged.
Alluding to Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan's charge of scams flourishing under UPA Government, he said the Centre did not hesitate to take firm and impartial action in all the corruption cases that had surfaced.
A former MLA, Agasthy is fighting to wrest the Peerumedu seat, known as the "tea county" of Kerala, from the sitting MLA E S Bijimol of CPI.
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