The drumbeats of the approaching Lok Sabha elections in 2024 appear to get louder each passing day in Kerala. On Friday, news trickled in from New Delhi that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tasked former Union Minister Prakash Javedekar to prepare the party’s State unit for the parliamentary polls.
The BJP also reportedly removed its national vice president, A.P. Abdullahkutty, from the charge of the party's Lakshadweep unit and supplanted him with Radha Mohan Agarwal.
Kerala is a perennial political battlefield for the CPI(M)-led LDF and Congress-led UDF. The BJP hopes to shift the status quo significantly in 2024. It has a definite eye on Kerala’s Christian votes. The party had empathised with the Church’s concern about the so-called “Love and Narcotic Jihad”.
