THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Lashing out against the Centre for its alleged financial blockade against the state, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday stated that this has not weakened or disheartened the state in any way.
"While planning is usually done for developmental activities, the union government is keen on planning how to suffocate our state by denying our rightfully deserved funds," the CM said, while inaugurating the Satyagraha against the centre's move of not providing ample funds to the state, at the Martyr's Column here.
Mentioning that active campaigns are heing held stating that the financial crisis in the state is due to lavish expenses of the state government and not due to the centre's anti-Kerala stand, the CM said that the Comptroller and Auditor General report published on December 2025 says otherwise.
"Why are you disapproving the state because of your hatred to the LDF government? What wrong did the state do," the CM said.
Terming the centre's move of not allocating enough funds for the relief activities in the Wayanad landslide as "cruelty", Pinarayi also commented that the centre had been providing lumpsum funds to some states who have been favouring them politically.
Going the political route, the Chief Minister said that even the funds under the celebrated schemes in the Prime Minister's name are not being disbursed to the state.
"Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Sunday, made some remarks here about our state. His dreams will not fructify here," the CM said.
Taking a dig at the Congress and UDF for not raising their voice against the fund crisis and taking soft stand against communalism, the Chief Minister criticised that the party do not refrain from wearing the 'ornaments of RSS' today for a few votes and a couple of seats. The CM also spoke against the newly implemented VB G Ram G Bill in his address.
Presiding over the event, Revenue Minister K Rajan said that the state had been able to provide welfare pension, connect to work, and women security schemes, even amidst all these fund crunching.
Criticising the centre government, CPM state secretary MV Govindan said that a sum of 57,000 crores is not being provided to the state from the union government annually. CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam commented that the centre is unbothered if the people of the state are suffering, as Kerala did not vote for their party.
The Satyagraha was attended by ministers K Krishnankutty, Kadannappally Ramachandran, PA Muhammed Riyas, MB Rajesh, P Rajeeve, KN Balagopal, Saji Cherian, Roshy Augustine, J Chinjurani, V Sivankutty, R Bindhu, AK Saseendran, P Prasad, GR Anil, VN Vasavan, KB Ganesh Kumar, CPM state secretaryV Govindan, CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam, LDF convenor TP Ramakrishnan, MLAs G Stephen, KK Shailaja, KT Jaleel, among others.