Kerala Assembly Elections: As Political Currents Shift, Which Way Will Christians Vote?
The thinking of the church could impact the fortunes of the LDF and the UDF in almost 50 seats southwards from Thrissur district.
Representative image of poll day in Kerala. Photo: PTI
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Thrissur/Kottayam/Kollam: Just after the morning mass on Good Friday, the vicar of St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Pattikkad, of the Thrissur diocese, had a surprise visitor. It was the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate and government chief whip, K. Rajan. The purpose of his visit was simply to meet the priest in person and they talked for a good half an hour.Â
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Both the rival fronts, the LDF and UDF are concerned over BJP s growing proximity to the Church on these matters, but have remained silent, fearing a Muslim backlash in the polls. Their campaigns focus on attacks in the country against people of the minority communities, allegedly by right wing outfits under the BJP rule.
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, addressing a poll rally in Thrissur last week, flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi s silence over the alleged harassment of the nuns.
Issues like conversion of the ancient Hagia Sophia church in Turkey to a mosque, incidents of Love Jihad and harassment of nuns in a moving train in Uttar Pradesh, will be reflected in the April 6 assembly polls, say voters in Christian dominated Central Kerala constituencies. Several heavyweights,including senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Kerala Congress(M) leader Jose K Mani, a key partner of the CPI(M)-led LDF, two Rajya Sabha BJP MPs K J Alphons and Suresh Gopi are trying their luck from the constituencies, spread across Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam and parts of Thrissur.
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Students and officials of Sahrdaya College, an engineering college run by the Archdiocese of Trichur in Kerala, pose for a photograph (Photo: www.sahrdaya.ac.in)
Catholic Church leaders are up in arms against a government ordinance in India s Kerala state, saying it infringes on their constitutional right to manage educational institutions.
“The new ordinance will adversely affect the functioning of colleges we fund and manage in the state,” said Archbishop Andrews Thazath, chairman of the public affairs commission of the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church.