LDF’s poll promises hollow,says Union Minister

“On the eve of the elections,the LDF government announced Rs 2 per k g rice scheme. (But in the past) five years,the government did not take any effective steps to tackle price rise,” the Minister of State for Power said.

If the LDF thought it could deflect the apathy of the voters by such election stunts,its leaders were living in “fool’s paradise”,Venugopal said.

A former MLA,Agasthy has been fielded by the Congress with the intention of wresting the seat in the plantation belt from sitting CPI MLA K S Bijimol.