Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to his Telangana counterpart A Revanth Reddy, expressing strong disagreement with the latter's alleged 'personally insulting remarks'.
The verbal feud between the two CMs began when Reddy claimed that Vijayan's time was over in an election rally in Kerala, borrowing a popular film dialogue.
Vijayan stated that he did not intend to get into a debate on the performance of the Congress government in Telangana, and that the people of the state will assess its track record.
He underlined that his administration has continuously published progress reports, which are available in the public domain, and that such an exercise is not done merely at five-year intervals.
Vijayan rebutted the Telangana counterpart's claim that his administration was engaged in selective appropriation of Kerala's achievements and downplaying the contributions of Congress chief ministers.
The statements from the Communist and Congress CMs come in the backdrop of a heated electoral contest primarily between the CPM-led LDF and the Congress-led UDF in Kerala.
