Amid the sound and fury of the Lok Sabha election campaigning in Kerala, the ruling front and the Opposition seem bedevilled by a quieter but nagging worry that their high-decibel sparring at the hustings can divide the sizeable anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vote.
Shashi Tharoor, Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and the party’s candidate from the high-stakes Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency, seemed to articulate the foreboding in a post on Tuesday on X (formerly Twitter).
“It’s ironic that the same
