Election results in Kerala

Dr. P K Sasidharan

My view point as a lay person on the election results in Kerala

Is the thumping victory of congress candidates in Kerala a victory against the present LDF regime?
The educated  people of Kerala had voted just for democracy and it was clearly against BJP. The interpretation that the verdict is against the LDF regime of Kerala is not really true.

Apparently the congress alone won due to the unwarranted fighting attitude between LDF and Congress during this Loksabha election.
Neutral democratic voters would have naturally thought that supporting Rahul Gandhi is more important at this point to oppose BJP and the Hindutva agenda.
Kerala had wisely voted for INDIA alliance.

I felt that the Kerala government had been silently doing exemplary performance during the last few years but the opposition parties both congress and BJP were attacking them on similar lines for no reason citing silly reasons. That may the reason for provoking the LDF to stand independently for this election.

Besides that emotional blackmailing was intelligently used against candidates like Shylaja teacher which is an unethical and undemocratic practice.
Let us not forget the achievements of the Kerala government too if we  are sincere to the people of Kerala.
The  unexpected criticism of Kerala CM by Rahul Gandhi and comparing him to Modi ( which is not true) and the retaliating criticism of Rahul Gandhi and congress by the CPM had destroyed all chances of LDF for winning.
If the INDIA alliance proponents  were intelligent they should have done something to share the seats in Kerala and kept BJP alone in the opposition and essily they could have prevented the BJP from opening account in Kerala.

If we do not modify strategies, the lie manufacturing WhatsApp university of BJP will work harder now to change the mindset of the people of Kerala by emotional blackmailing as had been shown at Vatakara. What is in waiting for Kerala is shown by the Thrissur results too.
Let us wake up and save Indian democracy and secularism rather than fighting each other to help the undemocratic forces
The attitude of some congressmen towards communism is comparable to the attitude of BJP against Islam, which is undemocratic too. Let us know that BJP hates both communism and Islam.

I feel it was a Himalayan blunder to say that the BJP and CPM had a secret understanding in this election. That was another huge emotional blackmailing which worked to the advantage of BJP only.
Let us promote INDIA alliance only for the next Lok Sabha election at least.
Congress and LDF should contest each other only in assembly elections.
Assembly election and Loksabha elections are totally separate issues in the minds of voters.