Coming down heavily on the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said both alliances had been “looting” Kerala for decades by sharing the spoils, but now the state was sending a “message of change” by accepting the BJP.Addressing a rally at Palakkad in the first phase of NDA’s campaigning in the poll-bound state, he said the LDF and the UDF have accused each other of being the “B-team” of the BJP, thus agreeing that the BJP was indeed the A-team in Kerala.“There has been an understanding between the LDF and the UDF that for some years the LDF will run the government and fill their pockets, then after a few years, the UDF will loot. Our Kerala has gotten entangled in this alliance of theirs,” he said while addressing a massive crowd.The Prime Minister also alleged that the alternating political arrangement in the southern state has led to both the Left and the Congress misusing funds from the Centre, creating employment crises that sparked rising migration rates, and rising political violence in Kerala.He also flagged the state’s debt crisis, alleging that it was crumbling under the weight of debt that had more than tripled to reach above Rs 5 lakh crore.“When the NDA government comes to power, this money will be used for development,” he said, adding that no new industrial projects had been started to employ people en masse.“The NDA’s target is to fulfil the dreams of the people of Kerala,” Modi said, pointing out that it had provided five times more budget allocation to the state than the Congress, when it had been at the Centre.Modi said the growing popularity of the NDA and rising trust in the BJP were reflected in the large turnout and enthusiasm at the rally, adding that “Kerala’s mood has become a movement.”He also claimed that the youth, women and farmers in the state were increasingly backing the BJP-led alliance, signalling what he described as a shift in political sentiment. He said the saffron party would transform Kerala into a developed state, asserting that it would move forward on the strength of “Modi’s guarantees”.The PM said while the Left and the Congress attack each other in Kerala, they share an understanding elsewhere. He alleged that both fear the BJP’s rise and the exposure of their “wrongdoings”. An NDA government would recover “looted” public money and step up development in the state, he said.He also took an apparent dig at expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil and councillor Prashob Valsan, who have been embroiled in controversies over alleged sexual misconduct.Without taking any names, he called them a “danger to the safety of women”, and hit out at the Congress for taking in leaders who he claimed should have been in a courtroom.Modi’s Palakkad rally will be followed by visits to Pala (in Kottayam) and Thiruvananthapuram, as well as the arrival of key alliance faces such as Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda in the poll-bound state. The state is scheduled to go to the polls on April 9, with the counting of votes on May 4.