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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) that the Congress had deed a caller governmental debased successful Kerala, with eight of its elected members shifting allegiance to alteration the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to ascend to powerfulness successful the Mattathur Grama Panchayat successful Thrissur district.
In a Facebook post, Mr. Vijayan said that the governmental farce, which is emblematic of the Congress rank-and-file successful different States, was caller to Kerala.
Congress’s organisational decay fertilised the BJP’s maturation successful Kerala, Mr. Vijayan said.
Earlier, helium had noted that the BJP had gained precise overwhelmingly successful the section assemblage polls astatine the Congress’s expense. He said the “Mattanur model” was portentous for secular and progressive Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan said a akin farcical script had unfolded successful Arunachal Pradesh, with 43 of the 44 Congress MLAs, including the Chief Minister, deserting the enactment to articulation the BJP.
He said the BJP replicated the Arunachal Pradesh exemplary again successful Goa successful 2019 and aboriginal successful Puducherry successful 2021. In 2019, the Congress Legislative Party successful Goa merged successful its entirety with the BJP.
The BJP, which lacked a azygous MLA successful Puducherry, engaged successful horse-trading and ascended to powerfulness by piggybacking connected Congress deserters.
Mr. Vijayan said the BJP appeared keen to replicate the exemplary successful Kerala. He said Mattanur was simply a demonstration. The Congress joined forces with the BJP to forestall the LDF from ruling the grama panchayat. At a stroke, the Congress authored its incremental capitulation to the BJP successful Kerala. “Mattanur is simply the beginning, helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said the trickle of elected Congress workers defecting to the BJP would soon crook into a flow. “A ballot for Congress volition invariably manifest arsenic a ballot for the BJP, helium added.
Mr. Vijayan said the BJP regarded the Congress arsenic a purchasable commodity. The BJP believes it could undermine the people’s mandate by wooing elected Congress workers into the Sangh Parivar fold.
