BJP wades into power struggle in Congress for Kerala’s Chief Minister post

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (May 11, 2026) sought to further muddy the alleged “cloak-and-dagger powerfulness struggle” successful the Congress for the station of Kerala Chief Minister. 

BJP State president, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, designated MLA, seemed to marque a tongue-in-cheek effort to exacerbate the “factional warring “ by stating connected X that helium would “neither corroborate nor deny” that his party’s State portion preferred All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide secretary, K.C. Venugopal, MP, to the apical post. 

Mr. Chandrasekhar was responding to a rib-tickling societal media gossip that the BJP’s Kerala portion was locked successful a quality with the nationalist leadership, which would sooner person V.D. Satheesan oregon Ramesh Chennithala arsenic Chief Minister than Mr. Venugopal. 

Mr. Chandrasekhar’s jibe astatine the Congress, and by hold Mr. Venugopal, came adjacent connected the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that “uncertainty” and the fearfulness of factional feuding “hampered” the Congress nationalist enactment from naming the party’s Chief Minister successful Kerala with certainty, contempt a historical win. In the aforesaid breath, Mr Modi had alleged that factional warring successful the Congress authorities successful Karnataka had arrested the State’s development. 

Mr. Chandrasekhar’s taunt besides seemed to travel arsenic a governmental tit-for-tat for Mr. Venugopal, accusing the BJP person of violating predetermination rules by concealing assets successful the affidavit helium filed on with his information arsenic a campaigner successful the Assembly elections. 

Mr. Chandrasekhar’s seemingly snide remark provoked societal media trolls, spotlighting the “shifty loyalties” of Congress leaders successful Kerala, particularly those who defected to the BJP up of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and successful the run-up to the Assembly polls, and suggesting that much “big names” would follow. 

In a seeming reply to the societal media taunts, Congress person M. Liju told reporters that Congress remained beardown contempt “many leaders, including Jyothi Raj Scindia and Gulam Nabi Azad, leaving the party. “AICC’s determination connected Kerala Chief Minister volition beryllium last for enactment workers. Party’s religion successful Rahul Gandhi and Mallika Arjun Kharge remains unshaken”, helium added. Mr. Chennithala pointed retired that it had taken the BJP 50 days to sanction its Chief Minister successful Haryana.