NSS director board decides not to go ahead with attempts to forge alliance with SNDP

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 

The attempts to forge unity betwixt the Nair Service Society (NSS) and the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam person failed erstwhile again. On Monday (January 26, 2026), the NSS manager committee decided to wantonness the efforts, citing the prevailing governmental situation. 

Recent statements by NSS wide caput G. Sukumaran Nair and SNDP wide secretary Vellapally Natesan had created the content of a thaw successful relations betwixt the 2 almighty Hindu community organisations over the past fewer weeks. This sparked speculation astir its imaginable interaction connected the upcoming Assembly elections successful the State. 

However, connected Monday (January 26, 2026), Mr. Nair issued a connection declaring the projected unity impractical successful the existent governmental scenario, “especially due to the fact that the NSS follows a argumentation of equidistance from each governmental formations”. The connection added that the NSS wished to maintain the aforesaid affable narration with the SNDP arsenic it does with different community organisations. 

“The gathering has truthful decided not to property up with the connection for unity with the SNDP,” it concluded. 

Past attempts astatine rapprochement betwixt the NSS (a forward caste Hindu organisation) and the SNDP (representing the dominant Hindu Ezhava OBC community) person collapsed owed to crisp differences implicit reservations. This clip too, the disagreement was evident, peculiarly fixed the relation of the Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), an state of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Thushar Vellapally (son of SNDP wide caput Mr. Natesan), and predominantly comprising members from the Ezhava community. 

Mr. Natesan, who has courted contention with vitriolic remarks seemingly targeting the Muslim community, is known to make unease wrong the CPI(M). His adjacent relation with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, has drawn disapproval from wrong the party. 

The projected NSS-SNDP unity generated important governmental interest, coming arsenic it did amid the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) displaying spot wrong the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) pursuing its beardown show successful the caller section assemblage elections and signals from the Catholic Church indicating uncommon nationalist solidarity with the Congress-led alliance.