Pinarayi Vijayan

In our manifesto we have said that we will focus on reducing the demand for liquor through awareness campaigns. We will also make it an offense to serve liquor to anyone below the age of 23.

Everyone eats all kinds of food in Kerala. Kerala is one of the states where life span is the highest; and lifespan is closely linked to food habits. In Kerala, people are generally non-vegetarians. If it was bad for health, life expectancy would not have been so good.

Our country is secular and Kerala is one state where it plays out at its best.

RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.

Over the last few decades, apart from other factors, direct or tacit prodding by the Centre has influenced Indian corporate groups' decisions on project sites... Politics cannot be separated from it.

The Congress needs to consolidate its secular credentials. Its soft Hindutva approach would only help the BJP.

The Left forces have a strong and growing presence in universities, youth organizations, and among trade unions and farmer organizations... This strength is bound to reflect in the parliamentary arena.

The Left is not a major electoral force in many states; in some, we are practically not there.

I have worked as a party secretary in Kerala. I had been assigned the responsibility of party secretary while I was a minister in the state government.

It was the anti-people stance of the Congress that had led to the emergence of BJP into power.

From my experience, I can tell you, a party general secretary naturally cannot take care of the responsibilities of a parliamentarian.

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

Leaders in the LDF are united and there are no differences.

You shall have to be able to oppose communalism, only then can you say you are secular. Many political parties which claim to be secular show their weakness when it comes to the fight against communalism.

The Congress has never taken a firm stand against communalism.

When a temple catches fire, irrespective of their faith, everyone works to douse the flames. Similarly, all parties worked against the forces that imposed Emergency.

The Left government has been consistent in its approach to a development process that takes environment into consideration.

People of Kerala will never allow divisive elements to succeed.

It's clear that the RSS is directly taking key decisions on behalf of the BJP. RSS policies are not compliant with our country's interests. The RSS doesn't accept secularism.

Kerala is not a resource-rich State. This is a big challenge. Only if you have resources, you will have sound industries.

It's the people's right to eat healthy food.

Drugs should be available for cheap prices for patients.

Every time they came to power, the Congress engaged in large scale corruption. Even when they were in power, they did nothing to stop the hoarding of black money in offshore havens.

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

As far as the Congress and the BJP go, we should not forget that they have not even apologized for the genocides in 1984 and 2002, which the Indian society as a whole holds them responsible for.

Usually it is good to spread some light. The problem is that lakhs of people, like our workers, small-scale businesses, the tourism sector, restaurants, holiday resorts, lakhs of them, are in trouble and we should be able to spread light to them. For that, good financial support is needed.

The aim of RSS is to build an axis of countries like U.S., India and Israel against China.

The propaganda that Kerala is a trouble-torn state is a matter of concern. Such a false propaganda will adversely impact its investment and development prospects.

Sangh Parivar criminals get protection in certain BJP-run states such as U.P. and Gujarat. Such protection is unavailable in Kerala. There is no special law for Sangha Parivar. All criminals are brought to book here.

Our party is not like the Congress, where leaders are more important than the party and ethics. In our party, people and workers are more important than leaders.

Issuing orders and circulars without errors and in the proper way is crucial for efficient administration. This is why the Secretariat Office Manual mandates scrutiny at different levels.

The orders and directives issued on the basis of government decisions should be exhaustive and factual. Deep and thorough examination is required before taking a decision on important policy matters.

Don't turn a blind eye to corruption. Effective and strong intervention is needed to make administration corruption free down to the level of village office.

The government's policy is to ensure a smooth environment where all political parties can function freely. The government will take appropriate action if anyone adopts a stand different from it.

Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people have fallen for such tendencies. A democratic society can go forward only after rectifying such outlooks.

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

Water Metro is the first water transport system of its kind in India. The project will be implemented in a timely manner and the first phase will become a reality in March 2020.

This very concept of police assault is a colonialist notion and it holds no significance in a modern, democratic society.

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in the entire country.

Our freedom fighters have struggled to oust imperial forces and establish a secular nation. It cannot be broken by the Sangh Parivar and Modi easily.

India has a national structure that accepts various languages. Nobody can dilute it.

People should not feel that they are not Indians because they don't understand Hindi.

India belongs to Indians of all kinds. Efforts to undermine this fact will only take our country backwards and destroy our hard-fought freedom. We must not let that happen.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

We have to continue to resist all attempts to change our constitution.

It is inappropriate to portray the central contribution to the Disaster Relief Fund as help for COVID-19 prevention.

If we don't learn from our lessons, are we humans?

Do not try to play politics using the health of the public during a disaster.

Look what happened in Assam where the NRC was rolled out. Poor people with no way to find their documents were affected the most. And among them, the majority were Hindus.

Kerala is not the place to roll out the RSS agenda.