It is not easy for the BJP to conquer Kerala as the people of the State won’t accept its communal ideology, CPI(M) MLA and former Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has said.
During an interview to PTI ahead of the launch of her memoir “My Life as a Comrade: The Story of an Extraordinary Politician and the World That Shaped Her”, she spoke in detail about her party’s electoral prospects, her lead in the State’s fight against Covid, the influence of her grandmother in her plunge into Left politics among other things.
Asked about the strong push by the BJP to make a foray into Kerala, particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s outreach to the State’s Christians recently and his remark that Kerala will soon be under the BJP’s kitty, she said, “It is not easy for the BJP to conquer Kerala.” The people of “Kerala rejected the BJP’s communal ideology. It could not win a single seat in the last Assembly elections”, she said.
