Kerala native physique polls: Robust exhibiting in native polls widens UDF’s path to victory in 2026 Meeting elections, says Satheesan

Chief of the Opposition VD Satheesan stated the United Democratic Entrance (UDF) Opposition’s sturdy exhibiting within the native physique election had widened its path to victory within the Meeting elections in 2026.

He stated the UDF’s emergence as an enormous tent accommodating diversified social teams catalysed the coalition’s “finest efficiency because the first elections for native our bodies in 1995”.

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The UDF wrested 500 panchayats, 77 block panchayats, seven district panchayats, and 5 companies from the ruling Left Democratic Entrance (UDF).

On the identical time, the UDF stymied the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance ascendancy in key native our bodies, reasserting its political identification as the only and credible bulwark in opposition to Hindu majoritarian forces in Kerala.

Mr. Satheesan attributed the NDA’s ascendancy within the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Company to the LDF’s flawed coverage of courting Hindu majoratarian forces after the ruling entrance’s overtures to minority communities failed dismally within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

He stated the LDF’s try and diminish the UDF via voter suppression, brazen electoral boundary manipulation, demonizing minorities, selling spiritual majoritarianism and tactical ward-level alliances with the NDA backfired.

Mr. Satheesan stated the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple gold theft beneath the LDF’s watch resonated strongly amongst voters, propelling the UDF’s victory. “The crime epitomized the federal government’s entrenched corruption, nepotism and barely hid contempt for the religion of individuals of their respective religions. The NDA bore the political price for “slinking away” from the problem,” he stated. The BJP backtracked on the problem to keep up the LDF-NDA shared intention of diminishing secular forces led by the Congress.

Mr. Satheesan stated CPI(M) chief MM Mani’s assertion that social welfare beneficiaries had proven “ingratitude” by forsaking their “paymasters” was emblematic of the LDF’s disdain for the voters. “CPI(M) management has no grace in victory or defeat,” he stated. Mr. Satheesan reiterated his promise to enter political self-exile if the UDF didn’t ascend to energy within the 2026 Meeting elections.