The seat will have voting on April 26, in the second round of the ongoing seven-phase elections. Anto Antony from the Congress is the incumbent MP here
The divisive seeds sown by the proponents of Hindutva extremism and the Bharatiya Janata Party were amply watered and spread by the Church leadership on several instances, especially in regions under the Pala diocese.
‘The Kerala Story’ screening was condemned by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Opposition leader VD Satheesan, both of whom characterised the incident as a ploy by the Sangh Parivar and cautioned against its influence on the public.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2-day tour of Kerala has sown the seeds of a paradigm shift in the political landscape in the God’s Own Country as the Church leadership and the Christian community have grown weary of the appeasement politics of both the Congress and Communist governments and