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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has termed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful Kerala a governmental shape-shifting entity whose “cake and angiosperm diplomacy” towards Church leaders smacked of duplicity.
He told a quality league successful Alappuzha connected Monday (April 1, 2026) that immoderate apparitions came knocking astatine Church doors successful Kerala with cakes and flowers. “At the Centre, the aforesaid entities question to bulldoze the patently anti-minority Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, which empowers the Centre to instrumentality implicit and administer number charitable institutions for the slightest contravention of the existing law, done Parliament,” Mr. Vijayan said.
He noted that a Union Minister of State from Kerala, who was contesting the Assembly elections connected the BJP ticket, had obsequiously defended the Sangh Parivar-inspired Bill that sought to onslaught astatine the basal of Christian and Muslim charitable institutions, including hospitals and schools, which provided affordable aesculapian attraction and acquisition to communal folk, cutting crossed caste and communal lines successful the State.
Mr. Vijayan’s effect came connected a time erstwhile the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) MPs from Kerala separately protested against the Bill extracurricular Parliament.
Postponed
Consequently, and reportedly chary of alienating Christians, a important electoral bloc successful Kerala, the Union authorities postponed tabling the Bill successful Parliament astatine the past minute.
The BJP successful Kerala had besides reportedly raised reddish flags that the Bill would undermine the party’s outreach to Christians successful Kerala.
Notably, BJP leaders, including Union Minister of State for Petroleum Suresh Gopi, attended Palm Sunday ceremonies successful churches crossed Kerala to garner Christian votes successful the Assembly elections.
Mr. Vijayan said the Bill was successful enactment with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) halfway ideology. “The foundational texts of the RSS, including Vicharadhara by M.S. Golwalkar, presumption Christians, Muslims and communists arsenic interior enemies and 5th columnists who deserved elimination. The Bill was an offshoot of the RSS’s revisionist Hindu majoritarian nationalism, which sought to relegate minorities, backward classes, Dalits and tribals to subaltern citizens with diminished rights. The BJP had introduced the draconian instrumentality citing nationalist information concerns,” Mr. Vijayan said.
Mr. Vijayan said the Congress’ protests against the Sangh Parivar’s trespasses connected Muslims and Christians had been astatine champion muted.
