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Chief Electoral Officer (CEO-Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar said connected Monday (April 6, 2026) that helium volition question a study from the District Collector, Thiruvananthapuram, connected a hatred code allegedly made by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person and the party’s campaigner successful Kattakada P.K. Krishnadas.
Mr. Kelkar said his bureau is besides readying to question ineligible sentiment connected this matter.
The contention pertains to a code made by Mr. Krishnadas connected Sunday wherever helium purportedly said that organisations specified arsenic the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Jamaat-e-Islami would beryllium successful power of the State authorities if either the LDF oregon the UDF came to power. Mr. Krishnadas was besides reported arsenic saying that girls from Hindu and Christian homes volition beryllium subjected to ‘love jihad’ and forced into anti-national activities.
Mr. Krishnadas had fixed his code soon aft Union Home Minister and elder BJP person Amit Shah near the venue.
At a property league connected Monday, Mr. Krishnadas stuck to his basal connected the ‘love jihad’ remark. He said his comments were not targeted against immoderate circumstantial religion. Religious terrorists had nary humanity oregon religion, helium said. He said helium volition “legally’’ respond to the Election Commission of India’s queries erstwhile helium receives them.
He besides repeated his allegation that Congress was successful a nexus with the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] with the SDPI. The BJP’s authoritative basal is that these are anti-national organisations. These alliances person triggered information concerns among the radical of Kerala, helium said.
