Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan says,

"Rahul Gandhi is coming to Kerala and contesting against Annie Raja.

Annie Raja is a national leader of the CPI. She was called anti-national during the Manipur issue for strongly calling out the BJP government's wrongdoing...

What was the role of Rahul Gandhi in that? Can he say anything about that? When the country saw many such protests, we could always see Annie Raja present there.

But did we see the most important leader of Congress, Rahul Gandhi?

They can decide who will contest from where, but the inappropriateness was discussed by the entire country.

Everybody is questioning his decision to come to Kerala but not competing against the BJP directly at the centre."