Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Kerala’s Palakkad on April 15. During a public rally in Palakkad’s Alathur, PM Modi in Kerala trained guns at LDF and UDF and said that they are deteriorating the condition of Kerala. He said that in Kerala, Congress calls the Left people `terrorists`. But in Delhi, they sit together, eat together and make strategies for elections." He also accused the Left government of hindering Centre`s development programmes in the southern state and alleged that the Left front will ruin Kerala like it did in other states where it was in power in the past. Modi also attacked the CPI(M)-led government in the state by referring to the Karuvannur Cooperative bank scam and accusing the Left party of looting money belonging to the poor. He also attacked the Congress by alleging that it created a weak image of India in the world, while the BJP had built the country into a strong nation.