BJP jumps at likelihood to fish for Nair votes, however NSS refuses to take bait
2 min read Express News Service
KOTTAYAM: As elections to the state meeting nears, the state management of the BJP has commenced its efforts to woo the Nair Service Society (NSS), one of many largest caste-based socio-cultural organisations within the state.
On Monday, BJP state president Okay Surendran shared on his Facebook web page an editorial article that appeared within the newest version of NSS mouthpiece ‘Service’, which thanks Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his or her tweets on Mannam Jayanthi this yr. According to Surendran, NSS normal secretary G Sukumaran Nair had additionally despatched letters to Modi and Shah, thanking them for bringing the philosophies espoused by Mannathu Padmanabhan, the founder acharya of NSS, to worldwide consideration by their tweets.
The BJP management presumably thought of the article a chance to construct a bridge between the NSS and the saffron occasion, which has maintained an equidistance from all political events up to now. Besides, the occasion additionally needs to counter studies that AICC’s determination to move the reins of its meeting election campaigning to Oommen Chandy was taken with the consent of the NSS management. According to sources, Surendran has plans to try to carry Modi to the NSS headquarters, if the latter involves Alappuzha to inaugurate an NH bypass there.
Meanwhile, dismissing all speculations, the NSS management clarified that the Society’s be aware of due to the Centre was not political in nature. “This is for the first time that India’s Prime Minister and Home Minister remembered NSS founder Mannathu Padmanabhan and his contributions to the society on his jayanthi. NSS considers this a great honour. There is no need to see any politics here. We will continue to stay equidistant from all political parties,” Sukumaran Nair stated.
Though the NSS management normally has a superb rapport with just a few BJP leaders resembling P P Mukundan and P S Sreedharan Pillai, it has by no means confirmed any signal of political assist to the BJP. The management has additionally principally ignored makes an attempt by the BJP nationwide management to realize its assist.
