The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and the Congress were fleetingly on the same page in Kerala on Friday following the Enforcement Directorate’s politically ominous arrest of New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on charges of laundering kickbacks.
However, the Congress quickly sought to end the perceived political bonhomie to forestall the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from drawing an equivalency between the ruling front and the Opposition at the Lok Sabha election hustings in the State.
Moreover, the Congress seemed resolved to come out swinging against the CPI(M) and the BJP to keep its electoral base in the State animated despite developments in New Delhi that could alter the party’s calculus and recalibrate its relationship with anti-BJP parties at the provincial and national levels in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.
