kochi the left government has converted kerala from gods own country to fundamentalists own country by encouraging violence and supporting extremist groups union finance minister nirmala sitharaman said here on sundayhitting out at the cpmled ldf government she said the law and order situation has worsened and there is an ongoing appeasement not of minorities but fundamentalists sitharaman was speaking at a public meeting in tripunithura organized in connection with bjp state president k surendrans vijaya yatra which entered ernakulam district on sundayshe said the government with its behindthedoor dealings with hardline groups such as sdpi is encouraging the growth of fundamentalism in the state what can be more shocking than the government permission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1921 mappila rebellion she askedshe cited walayar case murder of youth congress activists kripesh and sharat lal brutal hacking of rss activist nandu krishna as instances of violence and disruption of law and order in state amidst leftsponsored cruelty the congress leadership has been silent because the two are buddies in west bengal where also the cpm has institutionalized violence the fm saidsitharaman who spoke in english hindi and tamil also bemoaned the high levels of corruption in the state when the kerala budget was presented all money was given to kiifb i dont know how you can do that we also present budgets but dont give all the money to one agency cag has commented and criticized it calling it a total questionable operation as for the rs 5000crore deepsea fishing mou that was signed with a foreign company how is it that such a thing was done without the knowledge of the people of keralashe later felicitated former kerala high court judge justice p n raveendran former dgp venugopalan nair former telk md rr adm b r menon former bpcl general managers soma choodan and m p gopinathan former deputy gm k ravikumar dr prasannakumar etc who were among several eminent persons who joined the party on sunday it was also announced that justice chidambaresh would be joining the party in the first week of marchtripunithura for sreedharan you will get a very good mla candidate of whom you can be proud surendran told the audience in tripunithura the comment evoked large cheers from the crowd which was agog with news that e sreedharan is the preferred candidate of the bjp leadership you will get good candidates in ernakulam he added