Kochi, March 7 -- CPI(M) interim co-ordinator and Politburo member Prakash Karat on Thursday slammed the Congress leadership in Kerala for "playing cheap politics" and praised the LDF government for implementing alternative policies against the "neo-liberal" agenda of the BJP-led Centre.

After inaugurating the delegates conference on the first day of the CPI(M)'s state conference in Kollam, the veteran CPI(M) leader hit out at opposition leader VD Satheesan for alleging that the Left in Kerala was going soft on the BJP-RSS.

"In the Hyderabad congress resolution in 2018, we said that there are emerging fascistic trends in the country. Now, we have said that in the last 11 years, the Modi government with its aggressive pursuit of Hindutva...