JOIN USPM's statement on BJP coming to power in Kerala kicks up debate
The hopes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the BJP will come to power in Kerala has been pooh-poohed by the CPM and Congress camps in Kerala.
While Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the minority communities in Kerala could never take a pro-BJP stand owing to the hardships that the minority communities were facing from Sangh Parivar forces, opposition leader V D Satheesan of the Congress said that even the majority of Hindus in Kerala were against BJP owing to its communal and fascist agenda.
It was while addressing party workers on Thursday after BJP's gain in Assembly elections in North-East states that Modi expressed hopes that the BJP would come to power in Kerala too in the due course. He also flayed that the Congress and CPM were foes in Kerala were friends in other states
Pinarayi Vijayan said in a statement that the Prime Minister was being over-ambitious by hoping that BJP would form a government in Kerala. "It would be foolish to consider the pro-BJP stand by some sections for temporary gains as a general mindset of the minorities," the senior CPM leader said.
CPM politburo member M A Baby said that Modi was daydreaming. The BJP even lost its lone sitting seat in Kerala in 2021, he reminded.
Satheesan said that the people of Kerala would never allow a communal force to come to power. "BJP would have already become the number one or two party in Kerala if it even enjoyed the support of the majority Hindus,' he said.
Satheesan also alleged that the CPM in Kerala was having an unholy nexus with the CPM as it wanted to settle cases being probed by central agencies.
BJP state president K Surendran said that the attempts of Congress and CPM to frame BJP as an anti-minorities party would not work anymore.
Meanwhile, a proposed visit of BJP leader and union home minister Amit Shah to Kerala on Saturday to address a public meeting at Thrissur was postponed.