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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat connected Monday countered the communicative of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, successful the aftermath of the section assemblage canvass results, comparing the Left Democratic Front to a ‘sinking ship’ floundering to enactment politically afloat successful the run-up to the 2026 Assembly elections.
After a preliminary post-poll stocktaking astatine the AKG Centre here, CPI(M) State caput M.V. Govindan said the LDF possessed the governmental heft to clasp powerfulness for a 3rd consecutive word successful the 2026 Assembly polls. He denied that the section assemblage polls’ result was a verdict against the government. “The LDF remains the ascendant unit successful 58 Assembly constituencies. It retains a warring accidental to triumph backmost those mislaid to the UDF by a comparatively constrictive margin. There is nary anti-incumbency question arsenic touted by the Opposition,” helium said.
On Kerala Congress (M)
Mr. Govindan denied that UDF’s “overtures” to Kerala Congress (M) and different insignificant allies had rendered the ruling confederation shaky. “The LDF’s unity volition endure transient triumphs and setbacks,” helium stated.
Mr. Govindan countered the UDF’s instrumentality that the CPI(M) had experimented with ‘Left Hindutva’ by courting “Muslim-baiting” Hindu leaders. (Notably, the UDF had bandied astir the word astatine the hustings arsenic an euphemistic governmental coinage to represent LDF’s disapproval of the ‘revanchist’ drift successful the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) enactment and its ‘Congress-backed affinity’ towards the ‘Islamist’ Jamaat-e-Islami arsenic patently anti-Muslim and pro-Hindutva). “The LDF polled 10 lakh votes successful Malappuram,” Mr. Govindan underscored.
Mr. Govindan dismissed arsenic specified hyperbole the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) assertion that it had go a winning confederation successful Kerala. He said the NDA registered a modicum of occurrence with the UDF’s assistance successful the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. However, the confederation made nary interaction successful the territory panchayat polls. The NDA won conscionable a azygous territory panchayat spot successful Kasaragod.
Sabarimala golden theft
Mr. Govindan denied that the Sabarimala golden theft ungraded and the contentious Global Ayyappa Sangamam successful September had pushed the Hindutva agenda, arguably dormant since the emotive Save Sabarimala Campaign successful 2018, to the centre of the predetermination debate, catalysing communally coloured individuality authorities and relegating different issues, including livelihood matters, welfare, and development, to the back-burner.
“Sabarimala and Ayyappa religion scarcely benefited the Hindutva forces. The LDF wrested the Pandalam muncipality, a portion that lies astatine the bosom of the Sabarimala lore, from the NDA. The BJP mislaid the Sabarimala ward and the panchayats of Kulanada, Cherukol, and Mutholi successful the Ayyappa heartland to the LDF. The NDA’s bid to wrest power of the temple cities, chiefly Guruvayur, Kodungaloor, Taliparamba, Thrissur and Parassini Kadavu, failed,” helium stated.
