BJP Kerala unit chief meets Nair community leader

BJP today reached out to the Nair Service Society (NSS), a body of Kerala's influential Hindu Nair community, a day after the latter accused a section of the party leaders of trying to intimidate it and interfere in its affairs.
BJP State President Kummanam Rajasekharan met NSS General Secretary G Sukumaran Nair at the organisation's headquarters in Perunna here and said his party would "examine" whether any wrong had been done to the NSS leadership by its leaders.
"I understand the sentiments expressed by the NSS General Secretary in his speech yesterday. The party will examine it. If any issue is there, that will be sorted out through discussion," the BJP Leader, who visited the NSS office to pay floral tributes to its founder Mannath Padmanabhan at his samadhi, said emerging from his meeting with Nair.

The NSS chief had yesterday said "nobody needs to intimidate the NSS by thumping on broad chest. Those who are clad in saffron need not entertain any illusion that NSS could be wrapped in saffron."
Addressing NSS leaders, Nair had asked the BJP leaders to "control" those in the party leadership who try to target the NSS for political purposes.
His statement came amidst BJP efforts to woo various Hindu outfits in the state to back it ahead of Assembly polls scheduled early this year.
BJP, eyeing to make a mark in the state in the coming assembly polls, has successfully reached out to the leadership of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP) headed by Vellappally Natesan.

Natesan, who floated a new party 'Bharat Dharma Jana Sena' last month by organising various Hindu caste organisations in Kerala, had invited NSS to associate with it. But NSS outrightly rejected the Eazhava community leader's invitation, saying it could not be made party to "somebody's selfish move".