THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Minister MB Rajesh has raised questions with opposition leader VD Satheesan and experts who criticised the declaration of Kerala as an extreme poverty-free state. "Since May 2021, the government and local bodies have been carrying out these activities together with utmost care and determination. The accomplishment achieved through these 53 months of hard work was announced yesterday. Didn't the opposition even know that each local body had given final approval to the list approved by the Gram Sabha?" MB Rajesh asked in a post shared on Facebook.

He also asked whose fault it was that the opposition leaders and MLAs were unaware of all this, even in the local bodies ruled by the opposition. "Is it polite to shout 'fraud' like someone who woke up from a sleep the day befo

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