On Sunday, Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) pushed back against what it perceived as a politically loaded and communally polarising bid by the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) to stigmatise its ally and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader N.K. Premachandran, MP, for attending a luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament in New Delhi last week.
A viral photograph shared on social media by Mr. Modi showing him lunching with a select group of MPs cutting across the political spectrum, including Mr. Premachandran, seemingly catalysed LDF’s alleged bid to “cast a slur” on the RSP leader’s secular credentials and, by extension, the UDF, as both fronts primed their electioneering weapons in their respective political armouries ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
