Amidst reports over the Bharatiya Janata Party stepping up its efforts to woo the Catholic vote bank in Central Travancore, a closed-door meeting held between the party’s national president J.P. Nadda with two catholic Archbishops in Kottayam a couple of days ago is triggering widespread speculation in the political circles.
Official sources said the meeting, conducted on the premises of the Caritas hospital near Kottayam, followed inauguration of the newly constructed BJP district Committee office at Nagampadom on Sunday evening. Lasting just less than an hour, it was attended by the Knanaya Catholic Archbishop Mathew Moolakkatt and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Changanassery, Mar Joseph Perumthottam.
The BJP delegation, on the other hand, also comprised the union Minister V. Muraleedharan, the party’s newly-appointed Kerala Prabhari Prakash Javadekar, BJP State president K. Surendran and its district president Lijin Lal.
