CPI(M) accuses a ‘weakened’ UDF of scrambling for Muslim fundamentalist votes in crucial election year

State secretary M.V. Govindan accuses UDF of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind as a crutch to prop up its election fortunes. Jamaat’s youth movement, Solidarity Youth Movement, employs ‘extreme Islamist iconography’ and re-launched its agenda of revanchist Islamic revivalism in Kerala, he says

​State secretary M.V. Govindan accuses UDF of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind as a crutch to prop up its election fortunes. Jamaat’s youth movement, Solidarity Youth Movement, employs ‘extreme Islamist iconography’ and re-launched its agenda of revanchist Islamic revivalism in Kerala, he says