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From posters to social media posts, “teacher amma” is the central focus of the CPI(M)’s campaign in north Kerala’s Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency. The party’s candidate K K Shailaja “teacher”, the former state health minister, is popularly referred to as the “pride of Kerala” by her supporters and Left workers.
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has been a longtime partner of the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala. It is also a member of the Opposition’s INDIA alliance. In recent days, the IUML’s relationship with the Congress has come under strain over various issues, even as the CPI(M) tries to woo it away from the UDF, and the BJP launches constant attacks on it. Kerala IUML president Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Thangal speaks to The Indian Express about the perception that the Congress is going soft on its Citizenship (Amendment) Act stand, its relationship with the party, the CPI(M)’s outreach to Muslim groups, and the recent The Kerala Story controversy. Excerpts:
Hearing the distant announcement about the impending arrival of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a group of BJP workers at Kuravankonam junction in Thiruvananthapuram gets ready, holding saffron shawls. As his convoy halts, Chandrasekhar bends his head from the top of his vehicle. The BJP workers and several locals wrap shawls around the Union minister, one after another. There is also a brief jostle among them for selfies with him.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala is looking to repeat its 2019 Lok Sabha performance, where it won 19 of the 20 seats in the state. Like five years ago, senior leader Rahul Gandhi is a key UDF face in the state and is the party’s candidate from Wayanad. Leader of the Opposition V D Satheesan talks to The Indian Express about the UDF’s prospects, challenge from rivals, and Rahul’s role. among other issues. All seats in Kerala will vote in the second phase on April 26.
A YEAR after its release, The Kerala Story is roiling the state’s heated political battlefield, with other Catholic dioceses announcing plans to follow in the footsteps of the Idukki diocese and screen the controversial film, as part of efforts to “enlighten teenagers against love jihad”.
The Left Democratic Front is gearing up to take on both the Congress-led United Democratic Front and the BJP in Kerala in the Lok Sabha polls, and avoid a repeat of 2019 when it won just one of the 20 constituencies in the state. CPI(M) Politburo member and the party’s Kerala secretary M V Govindan “Master” speaks to The Indian Express about the major election issues, why he thinks the Congress is not in a position to unite anti-BJP votes, and the BJP.
THE murmurs over the missing flags of the Congress and especially its ally IUML at Rahul Gandhi’s roadshow in Wayanad on Wednesday continue to grow – the absence underlining the party’s uneasy balancing act as it tries to retain its Muslim vote without alienating other communities.
IN A CASE of damned if it does, damned if it does not, the Congress is in a cleft stick in Kerala over an offer of support to the party-led UDF by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political wing of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).