Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has termed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala a political shape-shifting entity whose “cake and flower diplomacy” towards Church leaders smacked of duplicity.
He informed a information convention in Alappuzha on Monday (April 1, 2026) that some apparitions got here knocking at Church doorways in Kerala with desserts and flowers. “At the Centre, the same entities seek to bulldoze the patently anti-minority Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, which empowers the Centre to take over and administer minority charitable institutions for the slightest contravention of the existing law, through Parliament,” Mr. Vijayan stated.
He famous {that a} Union Minister of State from Kerala, who was contesting the Assembly elections on the BJP ticket, had obsequiously defended the Sangh Parivar-inspired Bill that sought to strike on the root of Christian and Muslim charitable establishments, together with hospitals and colleges, which supplied inexpensive medical care and schooling to frequent people, chopping throughout caste and communal traces in the State.
Mr. Vijayan’s response got here on a day when the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) MPs from Kerala individually protested towards the Bill outdoors Parliament.
Postponed
Consequently, and reportedly chary of alienating Christians, a big electoral bloc in Kerala, the Union authorities postponed tabling the Bill in Parliament on the final minute.
The BJP in Kerala had additionally reportedly raised purple flags that the Bill would undermine the celebration’s outreach to Christians in Kerala.
Notably, BJP leaders, together with Union Minister of State for Petroleum Suresh Gopi, attended Palm Sunday ceremonies in church buildings throughout Kerala to garner Christian votes in the Assembly elections.
Mr. Vijayan stated the Bill was in line with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) core ideology. “The foundational texts of the RSS, including Vicharadhara by M.S. Golwalkar, view Christians, Muslims and communists as internal enemies and fifth columnists who deserved elimination. The Bill was an offshoot of the RSS’s revisionist Hindu majoritarian nationalism, which sought to relegate minorities, backward classes, Dalits and tribals to subaltern citizens with diminished rights. The BJP had introduced the draconian law citing national security concerns,” Mr. Vijayan stated.
Mr. Vijayan stated the Congress’ protests towards the Sangh Parivar’s trespasses on Muslims and Christians had been at finest muted.
Published – April 01, 2026 04:45 pm IST
