The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had entered into an electoral adjustment with the Forward Bloc in Thiruvananthapuram, has now gone one step forward with the party's Thrissur district president Gopalakrishnan saying that the Congress is the main enemy of the BJP in the state and that the party may go into electoral adjustments with the Communist Party of India-Marxist.
The BJP national executive member and former Union minister of state for railways and defence O Rajagopal told a meet the press programme in Kochi on Wednesday that the BJP can extend conditional support to any political party including the CPI-M. In local body polls it was the development ajenda which is the main plank for contesting the polls, Rajagopal said.
BJP state president V Muraleedharan told media-persons in Thrissur that the party did not have any electoral understanding with the CPI-M at the state level. Muraleedharan also told press that Rajagopal has spoken about electoral adjustments on the basis of the development initiatives at the local level.
The state Congress leaders who were expecting a windfall from the covert support of the BJP in the elections were naturally upset and the leader of the Opposition in the state legislature Oomen Chandy and the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala came out strongly against the BJP and said that the CPI-M and the BJP should come out in the open on any electoral arrangement in the state.
Chennithala charged the CPI-M of embracing majority communalism for a few votes and said that the CPI-M as a political party was trying to create a wedge between different communities for their electoral agenda.
Close on the heels of the developments, the backward class social organization Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam's Thiruvananthapuram president Kilimanoor Chandrababu said that the SNDP would extend its support to BJP candidates in select constituencies in the capital city.
