Thiruvananthapuram, April 7 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said the Left Front-led government has mired Kerala in severe levels of debt and it "does not deserve a third term".

Ahead of the Assembly elections on April 9, Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram who has been campaigning for the United Democratic Front candidates in the State said, "Certainly anti-incumbency is there in Kerala, I've seen it... People want to see the UDF come to power. So I think they can whistle in the dark about no anti-incumbency."

"There is... The state government has mired Kerala in severe levels of debt... This failure does not deserve a third term. They're pointing to a development report they brought out, but that report claims credit for a...