Kottayam: The Nair Service Society has sharply criticised the SNDP-BJP tie-up in the local body elections and said it was a failure. Had the BJP gone it alone, it could have secured more seats, it said.
The opinion was voiced by the NSS mouthpiece ‘Service’ in an editorial titled ‘Three-tier body elections confirms the equidistance stand of NSS.’
The editorial justified the NSS stand saying that it was unwilling to join the BJP bandwagon when a Hindu community organisation attempted to join it for a ‘larger Hindu unity’ aiming at political dividends. However, the BJP tried to reap political dividends by controlling that organization, it said.
The editorial alleged that the methods adopted by the BJP leaders for a tie-up with the NSS were intended to insult the NSS. “The BJP tried to prove that the NSS leaders were divided and it used some of the leaders to control the NSS,” the editorial said.
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