KC Venugopal said that if Pinarayi had fought against the bjp, he would not have become the chief minister today and no one would have believed the allegations of collusion. congress General Secretary KC Venugopal termed chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan's allegation of collusion between bjp and congress as a joke. KC Venugopal told Asianet news that if pinarayi vijayan had fought the bjp, he would not have become the chief minister today and no one would believe the allegations of collusion. KC Venugopal opined that Ramesh Chennithala is happy with the reorganization of the congress Working Committee and that there will be minor aesthetic conflicts when it becomes a democratic party. He said that K Muralidharan is an important leader of congress and he will campaign well in Puthupally. He added that the exclusion of Muralidharan from the list of star campaigners in Pudupally was a mistake and star campaigners were not important in the by-election.
Earlier, when chief minister pinarayi vijayan spoke at the election campaign of Left candidate Jake C. Thomas in Pudupally, the chief minister had said that the left wing is fighting against communalism, but what is the inability of UDF to speak against the Center and that there is collusion between UDF and BJP. Taking the case of Kitangur Panchayat, pinarayi vijayan alleged that this collusion has been seen in other local elections as well. KC Venugopal's statement was in response to this. At the same time, KPCC President K Sudhakaran criticized chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan's speech during the Pudupally by-election campaign. Sudhakaran sarcastically said that the chief minister, who counted the achievements of the Oommen Chandy government as his own, did not have a single word to say about the achievements of his government.