Kerala polls: Kazhakoottam turns into enviornment to resume combat over Sabarimala

Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With senior BJP chief Sobha Surendran coming into the fray in Kazhakoottam, it’s clear the Sabarimala concern will take centre-stage within the constituency the place Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran is searching for a contemporary mandate.

Even although BJP state president Okay Surendan is contesting from the epicentre of the Sabarimala agitation in Konni, political observers say the true battle over Sabarimala is prone to happen within the IT city of Kazhakootttam positioned many kilometres away within the capital district.

By expressing remorse for the incidents that had rocked the Ayyappa temple following the SC verdict over girls’s entry in 2018, Kadakampally himself made Sabarimala a speaking level on this election.

The minster, in actual fact, made the job simpler for BJP which noticed an enormous potential in turning any anti-LDF sentiment among the many individuals over Sabarimala towards the Devaswom Minister and thereby wresting Kazhakoottam, the place it had completed second within the earlier meeting election.

Sobha, one of many leaders on the forefront of the BJP’s Sabarimala agitation, made her occasion’s intention clear in fielding her from Kazhakoottam.

“I have been assigned the task of defeating a minister who led the entire efforts to wreck the customs associated with Sabarimala and tormented lakhs of believers,” she instructed TNIE. The firebrand lady chief added that she was preventing as a “representative of the believers”, placing Kadakampally in a decent spot.

TNIE tried to achieve Kadakampally for his feedback however an in depth aide of the minister mentioned he wouldn’t take questions on Sabarimala in the meanwhile.

However, in contemporary hassle for the minister, CPM basic secretary Sitaram Yechury mentioned the Left’s place on girls’s entry in Sabarimala was right and defended the federal government’s actions following the SC verdict.

The Congress, which had derived most electoral features from Sabarimala concern within the 2019 LS election, additionally desires to maintain the problem alive. 

“If Kadakampally has any sincerity left in him, the should publicly denounce Yechury’s stance on Sabarimala women’s entry issue,” mentioned Congress candidate S S Lal. He mentioned Kadakampally’s assertion expressing remorse over the incidents in Sabarimala was a sham.