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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] connected Monday attributed its “unexpected” mediocre showing successful the section assemblage polls successful immoderate measurement to a perceived surge successful religion and caste individuality authorities stoked by the Congress, the BJP, and Islamist outfits.
CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan told a quality league that the propaganda that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities was someway complicit successful the Sabarimala golden theft was a catalyst for disrupting livelihood and development-based governmental statement astatine the hustings.
He stated that the Congress and the BJP had nary tangible contented to run against the government, forcing them to make a communally divisive communicative up of the ballot by harnessing revanchist forces crossed the spiritual spectrum for governmental expediency.
Mr. Govindan said the close helping firm media helped the Congress and the BJP displacement the governmental sermon distant from issues concerning the moving people to schismatic grievance authorities centred narrowly astir religion and caste.
Mr. Govindan said the cacophony drowned retired the LDF government’s palpable way record, including extremist infrastructure development, contempt the Central government’s restraining fiscal levers, and a rapidly expanding societal payment net.
He said tactical cross-voting by the Congress and the BJP to diminish the LDF, CPI(M)’s organisational weakness successful upscale municipality neighbourhoods, and the party’s slackness successful countering divisive propaganda by promoting broad-based improvement and livelihood politics, aided the Opposition parties.
Mr. Govindan cited the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation arsenic a stark illustration of last-minute tactical cross-voting betwixt the Congress and the BJP. “The UDF was relegated to a distant 3rd presumption successful the 41 divisions won by the BJP, helium said.
Defying anti-incumbency
However, Mr. Govindan claimed that the LDF, weighed down by astir 10 years of incumbency, defied governmental gravity by importantly expanding its ballot stock successful the section assemblage polls compared to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
He said the LDF improved its ballot stock from 33.6% successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to 39.7% successful the section assemblage elections. The LDF maintained a wide pb successful 60 Assembly constituencies. In astir different segments, the LDF mislaid by “easily recoverable” bladed margins.
Mr. Govindan said the section assemblage canvass results indicated that the Hindutva menace successful Kerala seemed to beryllium flatlining. Despite sharpening its absorption connected divisive authorities by campaigning connected issues of small nationalist relevance, Mr. Govindan stated that the BJP’s elector stock fell from 19.6% successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to astir 14% successful the section assemblage elections.
