Poverty would be an obscenity for a Malayalee now.

With the onset of Gulf money in the 1980s, the poverty of the Malayalees was alleviated.

Although there are many BPL card holders in Kerala, there are no poorer ones in Kerala. Only ten percent of the population suffers from severe economic backwardness. They do not even starve.

Every Malayalee bought rations during the lock down period. Before that, buying rations was not even necessary for the BPL families here.

In Kerala, not even one per cent make agriculture their main occupation.

Although there are a lot of agricultural workers in the records, all those who do that work are from other states.

The basic occupations in Kerala are done by people from other states.

In Kerala, the majority of the middle class earns Rs.1000 per day for a skilled worker and Rs.500 for a helper. Twenty percent of households are financially strong families.

Poverty is a myth that was abandoned by the Malayalees years ago.

Well, the position of the Keralites is not to mention poverty.

This is not the case in other states. Most of the people, especially in the North Indian villages, make a living by farming.

It would be difficult for a Malayalee to believe that their average wage is 100 rupees. Kerala does not receive a quarter of the wages that a skilled worker receives.

They do not get jobs for half a day in a year.

Basic jobs are available only in cities throughout the year. Even there, wages are much lower than in Kerala.

The reason why people from other states are looking for jobs in Kerala is clear.

If you want to meet poor Indians, you have to go outside Kerala.

Poor and dalit helpless poor people are still living in villages and cities outside Kerala.

Kerala does not have many poor people. In other states the majority are poor.

It sees the deplorable state of Indian politics.

Power to those who claim to be the party of the poor in Kerala where there are no poor.

In other states where poor people are densely populated, the party of the poor has no power, no name, no organization.

The so-called party of the sovereign, the party of the so-called, has organization and power there.

The big question is why this is happening. India's politics will not change without answers.

In Kerala, the Left may continue.

I can say that it will continue. There is no guarantee that it will continue.

The Left government in Kerala is exemplary in managing the situation of the epidemic.

That is the main reason for continuing to rule.

After the end of the epidemic, there will be an epidemic of political games in Kerala.

There is no politics in India. There are political games.

Had there been politics in India, poverty would have been eradicated from this country in the seventy years since independence.

The days ahead are the days when poverty will intensify.

The epidemic situation has exacerbated poverty. I see no plan to deal with it.

Forty crore people who can blame fate for their own poverty do not even get into the discussions of others.

They are not an issue for the ruling party. They have only one vote for the opposition.

In the Indian context where the onus is on the poor alone to find an answer to the question of how to cope with life in the days to come, questions remain.

Many unanswered questions remain.