The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) considers both the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) as adversaries in a one-to-die battle in the forthcoming assembly. is. Election, State President of the party. Surendran has said.
Unlike the previous assembly elections, he said that the Congress-led coalition would not make any electoral impact this time. “That is why the BJP has emerged as the main rival of the ruling LDF, which has failed in all areas,” he said in an interview. Hindu. He also reiterated that the party needed only 35 seats to form the next government in Kerala.
Stating that Hindutva would be the BJP’s central plank in the elections, he said that the election would mainly curb the aggressive attitude taken against the Ayyappa devotees during the agitation on the Sabarimala issue. “People have not easily forgotten the brutal police crackdown on the devotees at the behest of the CPI (M) leadership,” said Mr. Surendran, who agitated against the Supreme Court ruling that allowed the right of women above the age of 10. 50 years to enter the Lord Ayyappa temple.
Support of christians
Apart from this, he said that the BJP would focus on various sects of the Christian community who were wholeheartedly supporting the BJP. “The party has fielded eminent people in the assembly elections. The list of candidates shows that the importance the party has given to minorities, especially Christians, said Mr. Surendran, who is contesting from Manjeswaram and Koni assembly constituencies.
The Congress and the CPI-M, Mr. Surendran said, were encouraged by extremist organizations for political and electoral gains. “The Left government has simultaneously withdrawn cases against Ayyappa devotees and agitators of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). This is sheer nonsense. Ayyappa devotees were fighting to preserve a tradition, while opposing CA-A was anti-national in nature. The Congress also demanded withdrawal of the cases against the anti-CAA agitators.
He said that these alliances also attached great importance to their communal agenda. This was a decisive factor in the selection of candidates in all the years, although these parties took the oath of secularism, Mr. Surendran said.
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