Hoardings positioned close to temples hailing Kerala CM as ‘God’ stirs row

A flex board positioned in entrance of the Valanchery Maha Vishnu Temple in Malappuram, Kerala describing CM Pinarayi Vijayan as ‘God of Kerala’ has stirred up a hornet’s nest of indignant opposition and criticism for the communist authorities within the state.
According to stories, the bigger than life flex hoarding, with an enormous portrait of the chief minister, positioned atop the board with the identify of the Vishnu temple learn: “You asked who is God. The people said the one who provides food.”
Poster hailing Kerala CM come up outdoors a temple
‘All prominent temples have turned red’: temple authorities fears disruption of legislation and order
However, this was not the one poster that was positioned in and across the temple. A second flex board went on to explain the Communist authorities within the state as ‘God’. It requested what additional proof was wanted in elections that the gods had been communists.
Posters hailing Kerala CM come up outdoors a temple
Yet one other hoarding with images of Pinarayi Vijayan and his cabinet ministers mentioned that the locations the place outstanding temples had been positioned had “turned Red” this election. 
These posters stirred up a serious controversy. Authorities on the Pachiri Maha Vishnu temple confirmed that the board got here up throughout the swearing-in of the second LDF authorities in May. The native CPM leaders, in the meantime, tried to clean off their palms by refuting the claims. They denied having any function within the incident.
Talking to TOI, the president of the Pachiri Vishnu temple committee Raveendran M expressed concern over the set up of flex boards, particularly the second some, which, he opined, could result in disruption of legislation and order.
“Some people raised a protest against the second board which mentioned electoral outcomes in temple towns and said that they will burn down the board. As we were concerned that it could lead to law and order issues, we approached the Valancherry police and the SI asked them to remove the second board. Though it was removed soon, the CM’s board remained there until last week. After it was widely shared on social media it was shifted to a spot 20 metres away”, mentioned Raveendran M.
Kerala authorities criticised for the dealing with of Covid pandemic
Over the previous couple of months, the communist authorities in Kerala led by CM Pinarayi Vijayan has obtained extreme criticism over its incompetence to deal with the pandemic. OpIndia reported how, regardless of raging infections in Kerala and the state authorities’s lack of ability to handle the pandemic, the Pinarayi Vijayan-led authorities had given in to the strain of the Muslim group within the society and had lifted lockdown restrictions for 3 days to have a good time Bakrid or Eid-ul-Adha from July 18 to July 21. The Kerala authorities had introduced relaxations for the Bakrid competition in a press convention organised on July 17. 
Kerala recorded virtually 17,000 new Covid-19 instances taking the tally to a two-month excessive on the day lockdown was relaxed. This raised fears that the Kerala state authorities’s biased choice, could flip Eid-ul-Adha/Bakri Eid celebrations into Covid-19 super-spreader occasions throughout the nation.