The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) efforts to engage Kerala’s Christian community face growing challenges, exposing contradictions in its outreach strategy. On Christmas Eve, Yuhanon Meletius, Metropolitan bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s Thrissur Diocese, criticised the BJP’s approach in a social media post.

Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs, George Kurian, strongly condemned the alleged threatening of teachers at a government school in Kerala by Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists over Christmas celebrations.

The three VHP activists were detained by Chittoor police in connection with the incident that took place on Friday at Nallepilly Government Upper Primary School in Palakkad.

PALAKKAD: Two Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and one Bajrang Dal activist were booked and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days for attempting to disrupt Christ

It is alleged on the FIR that the accused persons entered the school with a motive to create enmity among different communities on the basis of religion.