Kerala poll battle enters final stretch as rival fronts deploy star campaigners ahead of April 9 voting
The Hindu
Kerala's Assembly election heats up as star campaigners join Modi, Haasan, and others in a final push before April 9 voting.
Opposing fronts in Kerala are enlisting star campaigners to give their political messaging an added edge as the 2026 Assembly election campaign enters its final sprint, with polling set for April 9.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will play its closing trump card in the electoral contest on Saturday (April 4, 2026) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving to campaign in central and south Kerala.
On his March 11 visit to Kerala, Mr Modi had railed against the Left Democratic Front (LDF)-United Democratic Front (UDF) “turnstile” politics, calling it Kerala’s “bane” and a singular impediment to the State’s development.
The central question swirling around Mr Modi’s Kerala visit is whether the Prime Minister would address the concerns of the Christian community over the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act Amendment Bill, 2026.
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The Church in Kerala had soured on the Central government, terming the Bill a “draconian” attempt to usurp the control of charitable institutions, including hospitals, schools and colleges, run by minorities, threatening the BJP’s protracted bid to court the Christian community ahead of the Assembly polls.
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