India, March 5 -- The Congress party claimed to have strength it never possessed and, by splitting the secular votes, helped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win recent elections despite the farmer protests causing a significant blowback for the party, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday.

In an article published in local media ahead of the CPI(M)'s Kerala state conference in Kollam, starting Thursday, Vijayan said that if the Congress does not work to include and accommodate other parties, which can defeat the BJP, the result seen in the local Delhi election will be repeated in states where polls are due in the next couple of years.

Leader of opposition (LoP) in the Kerala Assembly VD Satheesan rejected Vijayan's al...