A two-day State committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] that concluded here on Sunday reportedly perceived that Congress’s “belated” decision to boycott the consecration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya had, in some measure, dented the enthusiasm of the sizeable minority communities in Kerala for the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition.
The meeting reportedly reaffirmed the party’s perspective that the Congress toed a “muted and pale imitation of the Sangh Parivar’s extreme Hindu majoritarian line” even in Kerala, despite the State’s sizeable Muslim and Christian population and inherent secular nature.