thiruvananthapuram its official now bjp is going to shift its focus heavily on kerala its just waiting for the election in west bengal to be over to achieve the political target the party would draw new strategies to confront the cpm headon the efforts would be to hold the cpm responsible for the economic crisis and development stagnation the state encounters following are the excerpts from a freewheeling chat with gopal krishna agarwal bjp national spokesperson in charge of kerala and a chartered accountant by profession we have stopped the practice of contesting elections for the sake of it in kerala after west bengal bjps political focus is largely on kerala its only bound to increase in future says agarwal who is in kerala in connection with the assembly electionthe party he says is confident of winning the hearts of kerala voters and forming the government in a matter of a few years this is not a pipe dream we just need to explain our development agenda to people and convince them if a state like up can achieve tremendous strides in terms of economic development in a span of few years kerala with its intellectual capital spices and tourism potential can do wonders he said adding that governments that always fight with the centre wont be able to make major developmental stridesaccording to gopal agarwal who had earlier been attached to west bengal election it was the prominent presence of marxists that scares investors away from keralathe basic concept and attitude of marxists towards wealth creation are flawed they talk about the distribution of wealth for that the basic requisite is the creation of wealth but unfortunately marxists wont address the aspect of wealth creation private capital is still anathema for them they cant perform the role of a facilitator he saidgood economics is good politics he says and claims that the economic policies that the bjp government under the leadership of narendra modi follow are focussed on long term development and growth the new amendments brought in by the centre on agriculture laws he claims would be beneficial to lakhs of farmers while it would go against the interest of a few othersour reform initiatives focus on the long term agenda its this point we want to reiterate in kerala once in power bjp would show the dogged and proven commitment towards the infrastructure and industrial development of kerala the establishment of waterways food processing units value addition of spices rubber and agriculture produce would be our focus once an investmentfriendly ecosystem is established its economic growth and employment opportunities would follow these are not claims we have practised and proved it in the states we are in power he said