KOCHI, April 17 -- A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashed an attack on the Kerala CPI(M) for the alleged pay-off by a sand mining company and the swindling of money from the cooperative banks in the State, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is on a fire fighting mission.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while election rallies at Thrissur and Kattakkada on Monday had said that poor people's hard earned money worth one lakh crore rupees which was invested in the cooperative banks in Kerala has been embezzled by the CPI(M) leaders. "It was the Centre which cautioned the State Government about this massive misappropriation of public money following the Kerala's allegation that the State's coffers were empty," the Prime Minister had said....