Bihar polls impact on Kerala: Fresh from civic poll boost, BJP hopes time will erase effect of defeat

The party now expects that electoral issues would be different at the time of assembly polls.

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“Elections six months away gives the party a good space to come out of the shadow of Bihar election. Before Kerala goes to polls, Assam assembly polls would be held. Let us see how the Assam polls would be affected by the Bihar outcome,” BJP sources said.

In Kerala, BJP is trying to exploit the “Hindu discontent” stemming from the “pampering” of minority communities by the Congress.

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The party aims to highlight how the Hindu community has been “neglected” by successive Congress and CPM governments.

Sources pointed out that the party has played down the recent national-level controversies such as beef row in Kerala factoring in the state situation.