BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated on April 10 that hereafter Keralam politics will be BJP-centric; BJP will be on one side and a Congress-CPM alliance on the other. He said that significant changes will take place close on the heels of the 2026 Assembly election results. NDA will make a great leap forward in the state. The imminent election results will prove it. BJP has high hopes in Nemom. He expressed confidence in NDA’s victory, as the voters have trust in the NDA.
In future, the direct fight will be between the NDA on one side and a Congress-CPM alliance on the other. It will be a deviation from the usual Front politics in the state. Keralam is gearing up for it.
The BJP President explained his strong stand while observers are analysing the voting pattern after the completion of polling. Chandrasekhar made it clear that NDA’s growth would rewrite the traditional political equations in the state.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s statement should be viewed in the wake of recent statements by both the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).
I am the only person who has maintained for several months that the 2026 assembly elections will be the most important in the history of Keralam— that it will be an inflection point in Keralam’s politics.
The high turnout reflects that the people of Keralam and all Malayalees… pic.twitter.com/kbWGJDSdKq
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@RajeevRC_X) April 10, 2026
Leader of the Opposition and Congress leader V.D. Satheeshan had recently said that Jamaat-e-Islami has abandoned the theory of a ‘theocratic state’. However, the Jamaat-e-Islami leadership immediately reiterated that they have not abandoned any of their core tenets.
Satheeshan’s claim was an open admission of his Front’s nexus with the Islamic fundamentalist outfit.
CPM General Secretary M.A. Baby and CPI State Secretary Binoy Vishwam had mentioned to the media that there will be ‘adjustments’ wherever BJP candidates are likely to win. SDPI, the political arm of the outlawed Popular Front of India (PFI), had supported the LDF in several constituencies.
The aforementioned developments are clear indications of the possibility of an INDIA alliance in the state against the BJP and the NDA.
On polling day, April 9, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the election is an opportunity for the people to select the future of the countrymen and the children. The attitude, policy, and vision of Viksit Keralam have been put forward before the people. People will create great change this time.
The BJP leader said they requested the people for a chance to avoid troubles in the Assembly and the demolition of computers there; it is to avoid dancing on the Speaker’s table, and to solve the issues that the people of the state face.
He was referring to the ruckus created by LDF MLAs in the Keralam Assembly on March 13, 2015. That day, the Kerala Assembly witnessed unprecedented violence as Opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) members tried to prevent Finance Minister (late) K.M. Mani, who faced bribery charges in connection with the bar licence bribe row, from presenting the 2015–2016 budget.
The party leader said that Keralam should change. What does not change should change; Keralam should change too. He wished victory to BJP/NDA candidates contesting from all 140 constituencies in the state. People have accepted and taken up the BJP’s policy of Viksit Keralam.
This time, the voting percentage in the state has increased from 74.06% in 2021 to 78.22%. BJP/NDA have pinned their hopes on the increased voter turnout. Several political observers have forecast double-digit numbers for the NDA.
