Kerala ruling front and Opposition close ranks against film ‘The Kerala Story 2’

The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) successful Kerala person closed ranks against the upcoming movie The Kerala Story 2.  The opposing governmental fronts person unanimously condemned the arguable movie arsenic 1 that brazenly advances the Sangh Parivar’s Hindu majoritarian agenda. Both alliances accused the movie of seeking to demonise Muslims arsenic “love jihadists” who lure Hindu women into matrimony with the surreptitious intent of converting them to Islam. 

Notably, the trailer of the movie shows a Hindu pistillate being force-fed beef by extremist Islamists, mounting the alarm bells ringing connected societal media handles. A important fig of netizens posted jeering trolls and memes, mocking the movie’s Instagram preview. 

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan raised the reddish flag connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026), urging the nationalist to beryllium wary of the “communally prejudiced” film’s divisive messaging. He said the producers sought to undermine Kerala’s communal amity by reinforcing the Sangh Parivar’s bigoted presumption of minorities, chiefly Muslims, arsenic anti-nationals. 

Mr. Vijayan said the movie sought to obfuscate Kerala’s improvement and societal advancement by portraying the State arsenic a fertile recruitment crushed for fundamentalists. He said secular Kerala, which rejected The Kerala Story, would dainty its sequel with adjacent contempt. 

All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput (organisation) K.C. Venugopal said the movie was the Sangh Parivar’s latest propaganda tool. He said the movie politicised the culinary preferences by condemning beef eaters arsenic subaltern citizens and anti-nationals, portion elevating cattle worship arsenic a marker of existent nationalism.

Meanwhile, the film’s manager Kamakhya Narayan Singh told tv channels that the movie was not Kerala-specific. “It reiterates the beingness of emotion jihad and forced conversion astatine the nationalist level. I person relied connected hundreds of paper cuttings that propulsion airy connected akin incidents successful Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The movie aims to make nationalist awareness,” helium said. 

Kerala BJP stance

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar told quality reporters successful New Delhi that the ruling beforehand was slyly utilizing the movie arsenic a governmental lightning rod to divert voters’ attraction from superior livelihood and improvement issues bedevilling the Left authorities successful the predetermination year. He said the Opposition played 2nd fiddle to the ruling front. 

Mr. Chandrasekhar said emotion jihad was a “harsh crushed reality, which disquieted families successful Kerala.” He accused Mr. Vijayan of portraying himself arsenic the custodian of a peculiar assemblage to ingratiate himself with Islamists, including the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH).  He said Mr. Vijayan utilized antithetic yardsticks for antithetic sets of people. “Mr. Vijayan did not protestation erstwhile a Hamas person (Khaled Mashal) addressed (via online) a rally (taken retired by Solidarity Youth Movement) astatine Malappuram (in 2023).