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The Communist Party of India (CPI) connected Monday (December 15, 2025) signalled that the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple golden theft ungraded implicating Communist Party of India-Marxist’s [CPI(M)] governmental appointees connected the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) perchance aided the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful eclipsing the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF)’s way grounds arsenic a pro-people authorities connected the section assemblage canvass run trial.
CPI person P. Santosh Kumar, MP, noted that the Congress and the BJP utilized the Sabarimala theft lawsuit to formed suspicion astir the authorities successful the minds of the electorate. “Notably, Congress and the BJP acceptable their run ditties assailing the authorities connected the Sabarimala theft lawsuit to the tune of fashionable Ayyappa devotional opus and succeeded successful altering the arc of the governmental communicative to their respective advantage,” helium added.
CPI State Secretary, Binoy Viswam, called connected his CPI(M) counterpart, M.V. Govindan, earlier the State Secretariat meetings of the respective ruling beforehand allies to grapple with the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s section assemblage predetermination expanse and the BJP’s emergence arsenic a winning governmental unit successful the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation.
Speaking to reporters extracurricular the CPI(M) State office astatine the AKG Centre successful Thiruvananathapuram, Mr. Viswam doubted whether the uproar surrounding the Sabarimala theft ungraded overshadowed the ruling front’s communicative astir the State’s expanding societal information net, improved nationalist work transportation and accelerated infrastructure development.
“It is erroneous to absorption solely connected Sabarimala. There are a fewer different factors that sowed disorder among voters astir the LDF,” helium said.
Mr. Viswam said the CPI mouthpiece, Janayugam, had expounded connected the LDF’s setback successful its editorial connected Monday (December 15, 2025).
Notably, the editorial underscored that LDF failed successful distancing itself democratically from leaders of societal organisations championing schismatic spiritual and caste individuality politics, chiefly by demonising minorities.
The editorial did not sanction immoderate leader. However, it seemed to obliquely criticise the authorities for not calling retired SNDP Yogam wide caput Vellapally Natesan’s contentious remarks, which drew aggravated disapproval from Muslim societal organisations. Moreover, the authorities accorded Mr. Natesan pridefulness of spot astatine the Global Ayyappa Sanghamam successful Sabarimala successful September.
The editorial said the LDF appeared to beryllium treading softly astir casteist and communal forces, creating “suspicion” astir the ruling front’s committedness to secularism among “some sections” of the people.
Moreover, the editorial noted that payment pension doles, the LDF’s cardinal run platform, were not the State’s foundation and an inalienable close of the beneficiaries. It besides seemed to beryllium a slanted onslaught connected CPI(M) person M.M. Mani’s now-retracted connection blaming “ungrateful” payment pension beneficiaries for the LDF’s failure.
In what seems to beryllium a notation to the apprehension of CPI(M) person and erstwhile Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president A. Padmakumar successful the Sabarimala theft case, the editorial stated that the LDF indispensable look the governmental consequences for the wrongdoing of those entrusted with cardinal responsibilities. The paper reminded readers that spiritual places of worship clasp a salient presumption successful people’s minds.
