RSS trying to emulate UP model to enter Kerala: CPM

NEW DELHI: Less than a year ahead of assembly elections, Kerala politics is witnessing a churn not seen in a long time. For a state that has regularly swung between Congress-led United Democratic Front and CPM-led Left Democratic Front, BJP is trying to make more than a cameo presence by cosying up to powerful social organisation like Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam ( SNDP).

With BJP ruling the Centre, CPM acknowledges that the threat is genuine and needs to be dealt with politically and ideologically. The growing presence of Hindu right-wing parties, CPM members said, would be discussed in the party plenum on organisation to be held in December. As of now, the party is working at all levels -districts to wards -and exposing, what party MP K N Balagopal said, the real purpose of the alliance between SNDP and BJP.

"BJP needs social organisations like SNDP as a shield for its communal politics," he said. " RSS is focusing on Kerala and trying to emulate the UP model. It is appropriating caste organisations and pumping money. Irony is Congress can be managed. Ideologically , Congress and BJP can swap places," he added. Party member and politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai found a bigger fault with the tango between SNDP and BJP. "Philosophy of SNDP is against communalism and upper caste hegemony. How can they cohabit? It is a section of the SNDP leadership that is behind the move, not its rank and file," he said.