thiruvananthapuram chief minister pinarayi vijayan has said that the bjp has reduced democracy to an item to be purchased while congress itself has become a thing put up for sale the rivals of ldf have big concerns over the added mass support to the government now they are trying to create certain kind of symbols for limiting the discussions to such issues congress tries to give a message that contest in nemom is the partys trump card in its fight against bjp the congress should first make it clear that where have their votes gone in the previous election in nemom now they the congress say they have fielded a strong person in nemom it will take quite some time to know whether the congress is sincere in its fight against bjp in nemom the cm told a news conference in kannur on tuesday he said that to prove the partys sincerity in this regard the party should retrieve the votes that had gone to the bjp in the previous election both the bjp and the congress are helping each other leaders of one party will raise a particular allegation against the ldf government in the morning and the leaders of the other party will raise the same allegation in the evening he added they are engaged in the campaigns to malign the ldf government one of the campaigns was that the psc is not giving appointment to the rankholders in the past five years the psc gave placement for 158000 persons it is an alltime record at the same time the central government is not filling around 8 lakh vacancies the cm said another allegation is that the food kit given in the state is being given by the centre if so why is food kit distribution system not there in the bjpruled states he askedpeople in many states voted out bjp and elected congress but the elected congress legislators sabotaged the peoples mandate and sold themselves out to the bjp when these mlas were in congress they were opposing caa now they have to support caa this attitude has put the credibility congress at stake vijayan saidon the congress leaderships comment that lathika subhashs protest was stagemanaged by the cpm the cm said that he has doubts whether it was a mature comment on the part of political leadersin the past five years the ldf government was with the people the mass participation of people in the election campaign in dharmadom especially women shows that the people are with the ldf the cm said