Overview
- Following Thursday’s campaign remarks in Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said A Revanth Reddy was misled and rejected talk of a “dark era.”
- He cited NITI Aayog’s 2023–24 index that tracks progress on UN goals, saying Kerala ranks first and Telangana sixth with poverty at 0.55% versus 5.88%.
- On social outcomes, he highlighted Kerala’s 95.3% literacy rate and an infant mortality rate of 5 per 1,000 live births.
- He accused Reddy of hypocrisy, pointing to alleged bulldozing of poor people’s homes, frequent pay and pension delays in Telangana, and a 2025 visit by Telangana officials who studied Kerala’s digital land records system.
- Reddy, during the Kerala campaign, alleged corruption and family rule, linked Vijayan politically to PM Narendra Modi, and blamed the state for stalled highway works while accusing the Centre of misusing the ED and CBI.