Kochi: The Thrikkakkara by-election was held in Kerala, which was on the verge of collapse. The Congress, the CPM and the BJP gave their maximum attention to Thrikkakara. The late Congress MLA P.T. Thomas’ wife, Uma Thomas, won a record majority in the legislature. But through this by-election, the common man has come to understand the fronts in Kerala that are favoring the vote bank.
Minority votes are the fronts vying for their own. Undoubtedly, elections have become a battleground between political parties trying to please the vote banks rather than gaining votes through politics. The vile culture created by the vote bank by uniting the caste and religion equations and forming a front is gaining strength in Kerala. What has happened in Thrikkakara is proof that they are turning back through Kerala.
In Thrikkakara, all the three fronts have made it clear that they will no longer be able to win political votes in Kerala. The continuation of the Left Front government was a warning to the UDF, which was proud to always have the Muslim-Christian vote with them. Jose K. With the change of the Mani Front, the Congress not only failed to stop the leakage of Christian votes, but also realized that it would not vote if it was favored only during the election period.
The BJP, which faced the election with allegations that the ruling party was behind the violence perpetrated by the Popular Front and the SDPI in Kerala, could not even retain its own votes. Although Kerala has always been behind the caste votes, each party maintains a veil and light for it. That is why a Latin candidate was fielded in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency and often a Catholic candidate in Thrissur.
Upon reaching Thiruvananthapuram, this position will also be available to the frontier Hindus. Even when coming to Mukandapuram, the Christian candidate conveniently forgets politics. Examples include Sebastian Paul in 1998, Mani Thomas in ’99, Edward Eder in 2004, Sindhu Joy in 2009 and Christy Fernandes in 2014. With the exception of North Malabar, each party has won by satisfying the local religious majority and gaining political votes.
Instead, whenever there is a political candidate, he has to accept defeat. The efforts made by the CPM to keep the Muslim community in Malabar with it for the last few years and the fact that it helped the party to continue its rule are now before every Malayalee like a clear book of clear evidence of the caste politics that is taking shape in Kerala. Jose K. as the suspension bridge built by the CPM to the Christian Church. Mani changed. But the CPM’s strategy of replacing Arun Kumar with Joe Joseph to break the Christian vote, which has traditionally sided with the Congress, failed.
The CPM used the main venue of Lizzie Hospital, known as the center of the church, to announce its candidate for the support of hundreds of priests, nuns and their influential families associated with the hospital. The unification of the Christian vote was the main factor that prompted CPIM to erase Arun Kumar’s name. In addition, the faithful KV of the churches. What motivated the CPM to side with Thomas was the eagerness to build a Christian vote bank.
However, the CPM’s calculations were changed when the SDPI shouted slogans against the child in Alappuzha. George was arrested and imprisoned. At the same time, the CPM’s ability to largely abhor the Christian-Muslim vote is now seen as a key factor in the major defeat. Religious forces as well as religious votes are becoming more decisive in Kerala than ever before. Thrikkakara proves that every political party is becoming more and more dependent on religious leaders and religious votes. When political leaders are compelled to take a pleasing approach to any religion without quarreling with it, the Malayalee will always find that Prabudha Kerala is just ridiculous.
