The potentially polarising controversy surrounding Speaker A.N. Shamsheer’s allegedly “irreverent anti-Hindu comments” continued to unsettle Kerala politics for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.
The prickly dispute raised public concern that “warlike statements” from CPI(M) and BJP leaders, amplified on social media, had vitiated Kerala’s social climate.
Meanwhile, the politically weighty Nair Service Society (NSS) dug its heels in on its demand for an apology from Mr. Shamsheer. NSS general secretary Sukumaran Nair said Mr. Shamsheer “wounded Hindu hearts, and his comments were unbecoming for a Speaker.”
