CPI(M) Kerala State secretary M.V. Govindan has said defections to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have “enfeebled” the Congress and caused the public’s trust in the Opposition party in Kerala to plummet steeply.
Addressing a press conference at AKG Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on March 8 (Friday), Mr. Govindan also made a robust Lok Sabha electoral pitch by portraying the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) as the “sole secular bulwark” against the Sangh Parivar’s alleged attempts to “divide” Kerala into communal lines and turn the State saffron.
Mr. Govindan said a vote for the Congress was tantamount to a referendum for the BJP. He accused the BJP of systematically subverting the Constitution to promote “a vicious brand of extreme Hindu majoritarian nationalism” that sought to relegate minorities, Dalits and backward classes to a subaltern status.
