Letter to BS: Congress is playing second fiddle to BJP on Sabarimala issue

Shah's warning that Pinarayi government's days are numbered was rightly viewed as a challenge to the will of the people of Kerala

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah recently launched an attack on the Pinarayi Vijayan government as part of his Kerala mission. His earlier attempts to kick-start his party’s fortunes failed. Implicit in his denunciation of the Left Democratic Front government as anti-Hindu is his party’s move to polarise people. The assertion of authority by the state government after the initial vacillation seems to have provoked the party to go all out at the Left government. It would seem that in Shah’s view, preventing women from entering Sabarimala is pro-women. It was significant that his visit coincided with the torching of