Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s high-profile public rallies against implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) have cast the politically divided minority communities in Kerala at the centre of an electoral tug-of-war.
The United Democratic Front (UDF) arguably worries that the ruling Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) pugnacious positioning for minority votes could upend traditional voting patterns that have often delivered the Opposition coalition victories, including for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Wayanad parliamentary segment in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.