Palakkad, March 29 -- Ahead of the Kerala Assembly Elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressing his first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-NDA rally in the State, launched a sharp attack on Kerala's dominant political parties, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and United Democratic Front (UDF), accusing them of trapping the state in a cycle of "selfish politics" and corruption.

Adressing the gathering at a public meeting in Palakkad, PM Modi hit out at the alliances that, while one side is corrupt, the other is "mega corrupt".

"Keralam has been trapped for decades between the two masks of selfish politics. On one side, LDF, on the other UDF, on one side Communists, on the other Congress, one corrupt, the other mega-corrupt, on...