Pathanamthitta: In a serious breach of security, a private car rammed the pilot vehicle which was part of the convoy of union human resource development Prakash Javadekar here on Sunday. A Wagon R tried to overtake the convoy at Kulanada and hit the pilot vehicle three times, said BJP leaders, who demanded an inquiry into the incident.

The minister was returning after campaigning for the NDA ahead of the Chengannur byelection. The police have taken into custody Lenin Murali, who was driving the Wagon R. The 24-year-old will be subjected to medical examination.

'Most rights violations in Kerala'

Earlier, in his speech at Chengannur, Javadekar alleged that the CPM-led LDF government and the Congress-led UDF opposition in Kerala have come together to defeat BJP for the May 28 bypoll in Chengannur.

"Both CPM and Congress have joined hands as they are afraid of BJP, which has conquered most of the states in the country, the latest being CPI(M)-ruled Tripura. If one votes for LDF, it is actually for UDF and if you vote for UDF, it is for LDF," he said.

The senior BJP leader was speaking after inaugurating an NDA election convention here.

Expressing confidence that BJP candidate P S Sreedharan Pillai would win the bypoll, Javadekar said the party got nearly 40,000 votes in the 2016 assembly polls.

"In this election the party will win by a massive margin. The lotus will bloom in Chengannur", the BJP leader said.

The union HRD minister also said that his party would capture power in Karnataka, where assembly elections are to be held on May 12. The BJP would also taste victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and come to power in Kerala in the 2021 state assembly polls, he said.

"People of the state will vote against the dynastic politics of the Congress and the politics of violence of CPM,” he said.

Slamming the LDF government headed by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan over 'collapse' of law and order in the state, he referred to the recent custodial death of a 26-year old man in Kochi, the lynching of tribal man Madhu at Palakkad, and the rape and murder of a Latvian tourist.

(With PTI inputs)

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