Amit Shah meets BJP, Sangh pioneers in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 3 BJP President Amit Shah today held a series of meetings with office bearers of the party and the RSS as part of efforts to fortify the party base in Kerala in front of the 2019 Lok Sabha surveys.

Shah, who touched base here on the second leg of his Kerala visit, started with garlanding the statue of social reformer and dalit pioneer Ayyankali.

He will likewise interact with social pioneers today.

Shah's three-day visit is gone for charming the dalits and the minority communites in the state, where the party has been attempting to get an a dependable balance.

The BJP pioneer had yesterday met Church heads, including Cardinal George Alencherry of the Syro-Malabar Church, with an end goal to charm the minority group, which represented 18-20 per cent of votes in Kerala.

Alluding to the continuous assaults on BJP units by CPI(M), Shah hosted said the development of his get-together can't be ceased by violent means.

Addressing to a party meeting in Kochi yesterday, Shah had said the southern state was "imperative" in the BJP's methodology for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

He had said the BJP, which had won a few Assembly surveys in the nation after the 2014 Lok Sabha decision, would not be "completely fulfilled" till it tasted triumph in the Kerala Assembly surveys.

Then, CPI(M) state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan attacked Shah saying he had come to Kerala amid the 2016 get together surveys expressing that the saffron gathering would win 70 or more of the aggregate 140 seats, however got only one seat.

"Presently Shah has come to state that they will sack most extreme parliament seats. This yearning won't succeed," he said.

When the nation is confronting an emergency because of the Centre's restriction on special of dairy cattle in creature markets for butcher, the BJP pioneer has gone to the state to charm the minority groups into NDA, Balakrishnan said.

The BJP does not have a solitary MP in the lower house from the state, which has 20 seats. In 2014 Lok Sabha races, its efforts to win two or three seats had crashed, he said.

In the get together, the BJP figured out how to win a solitary seat from the state capital voting public of Nemom.