THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Contrary to current tactics of highlighting the ruling front’s failures on different issues, the UDF will adopt a different line now: Convincing voters how it proposes to resolve their issues if voted to power. A high-level leadership meeting of the UDF held in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday adopted this modified tactical line.
The UDF leadership has realised that parties lost their credibility and morality by raising a plethora of accusations against each other during elections. It has found that raising allegations frequently against opponents often turns farcical. “It is easy to point out failures and raise accusations against the ruling party,” a senior UDF leader told TNIE.
“However, it will be more convincing if we tell people how we plan to address these issues if we come to power.
Voters will definitely listen to us. There are many issues lying unresolved in the state administration. And there are many welfare measures people need urgently. We have to explain to them how we are going to address their issues.
The meeting held on Tuesday was a preliminary brainstorming session to chart out the course of action in this direction,” he said. It was also decided to raise public matters such as Munambam land issue, man-animal conflict, Forest Act Amendment Bill and rising road accidents in the coming session of the assembly.
The UDF leadership is buoyed by the bypoll results — assembly, Lok Sabha and local body. The leaders also expressed satisfaction with the way UDF handled the Munambam land issue.
“We have taken into confidence the Christian and Muslim parties who have been at loggerheads regarding the ownership of land at Munambam,” the UDF leader said. “We had conveyed to them that our position is that families living in the disputed land should not be evicted,” he said.
To tackle the challenges to be faced in the 2025 local body election, the UDF has decided to invigorate preparation which had been halted in view of the by-elections. It would create a mobile app for enrolling people in voters list. “Party workers will visit each home in each ward armed with a mobile app. There will be a separate manifesto for each local body apart from the state-level manifesto of the UDF,” front convener M M Hassan told TNIE.