The Rise After Decades of Denial
For decades, kerala treated the bjp like an outsider.
Not just politically — but culturally, socially, and emotionally. For years, the Left and the congress sold one narrative: “Kerala will never accept the Lotus.” The bjp was mocked as a North indian idea, a fringe voice, a party that “will never cross the LDF–UDF wall.”
Candidates were hard to find.
Supporters were labelled.
Booth workers were bullied.
In many places, people needed courage just to hold the lotus flag openly.
But history works in cycles.
And truth eventually breaks through every manufactured lie.
Today, that same kerala — the kerala that once shut its doors — has opened them wide.
For the first time ever, the bjp has fielded 21,065 candidates in local body polls.
And an unbelievable 19,871 are directly contesting with the Lotus symbol.
This isn’t just numbers.
This is revenge.
A comeback.
A silent uprising that old parties never saw coming.
What changed?
People finally realised that the “secular” slogans of the Left were a cover for corruption, violence, and hypocrisy.
They saw the UDF’s double standards and internal rot.
They saw how development became a political threat for both fronts.
The bjp didn’t enter kerala through shortcuts.
It entered through blood, sweat, booth-level work, cultural rootedness, temple protection movements, youth mobilisation, and a decade of persistent ground push.
Now the same parties that mocked the bjp are scared.
The wall they built for 40 years is cracking.
The ground beneath them is shifting.
Their monopoly is collapsing ward by ward.
Kerala is changing.
And once the lotus blooms in a land, no old ideology can stop its fragrance from spreading.
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