Mattannur grama panchayat vice-president election signals Congress-BJP nexus, says Govindan

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat connected Friday said the strengthening Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nexus successful the important Assembly predetermination twelvemonth successful the State was evident successful the predetermination of the vice-president of the Mattathur grama panchayat successful Thrissur. 

CPI(M) State caput M.V. Govindan said the BJP ward members backed the Congress candidate, electing the idiosyncratic to the station connected the 78th day of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Earlier, helium said, Congress members had voted en bloc to elite a BJP campaigner arsenic the grama panchayat president. 

Mr. Govindan said the ‘unholy nexus’ was decades old, but the symbiotic narration had assumed captious momentum up of the polls. “Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan, and erstwhile BJP State president K. Surendran had jointly sued the authorities for harnessing the expertise of large information firms to crunch aesculapian information for successfully managing the COVID situation. The tribunal threw retired their defamatory contentions. Propriety demanded that the leaders tender a nationalist apology for seeking to hoodwink Keralites,” helium added. 

Mr. Govindan said the UDF had nary coherent predetermination manifesto oregon a imaginativeness for modern Kerala. Hence, the Congress-led confederation had resorted to Machiavellian tactics entailing a socially perilous Mephistophelean narration with fundamentalist forces for votes. 

Apology sought

Mr. Govindan besides demanded a nationalist apology from Congress legislator Mathew Kuzhalnadan, who ‘relentlessly targeted’ Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his household connected baseless corruption charges, until the Supreme Court dismissed his defamatory allegations. Mr. Govindan said the Congress wooed fundamentalist elements from either broadside of the spiritual spectrum, including the “Islamist” Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) for votes. 

CPI(M) State committee subordinate and General Education Minister V. Sivankutty wrote connected Facebook that Mr. Satheesan’s refusal to judge the situation to contention the Assembly elections from Nemom constituency successful Thiruvananthapuram was different tangible grounds of the Congress-BJP nexus successful the State. 

Mr. Sivankutty had issued the situation pursuing a warfare of words betwixt him and the Leader of the Opposition implicit the alleged complicity of the apical Congress enactment successful the Sabarimala golden theft case. Mr. Satheesan demurred, stating that helium had represented his location crushed successful Paravur, Ernakulam, for 5 presumption and it was excessively precocious to displacement constituencies. 

Mr. Sivankutty alleged that Mr. Satheesan’s refusal signalled a covert confederation with the BJP. “Congress is poised to transmission its votes to the BJP successful Nemom, arsenic it did successful the 2016 Assembly elections, successful reciprocation for the covert enactment of Hindutva forces successful Paravur and different cardinal constituencies,” helium wrote.