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Alphons in Union Cabinet: Modi reaches out to Christians in Kerala and also country Camil Parkhe 01.48 PM     goo.gl/xo9XHH Alphons belonged to the 1979 batch of the Kerala cadre. As a bureaucrat, he had led Kottayam into becoming the first district in state to attain 100  per cent literacy. He had won Kerala Assembly election in 2006 as an independent with support by the Left, from a Christian-dominated constituency. In 2011, Alphons had joined BJP. As a part of the recent reshuffling of his cabinet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to reach out to the Christian community in the country. The induction of KJ Alphons, a former bureaucrat and the BJP leader from Kerala is perceived as Modi’s and BJP’s efforts to woo the Christians in the country as a whole and the Christians in Kerala ahead of the general elections in 2019. In the elections to the Kerala State A...

Kerala, Tamilnadu politicians woo Church leaders on poll eve Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Thursday, 12 May 2016 AT 09:31 AM IST            Sakal Times     http://goo.gl/4hZzwd Camil Parkhe ,  Kerala ,  Tamil Nadu ,  Church leaders ,  Christian communities Wooing the minority:  A file photo of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy (2nd from left) with Cardinal Baselios Cleemis As Kerala and Tamil Nadu polls approach, leaders of various political parties are wooing the Church leaders to seek votes of the Christian communities in these two southern states. Leaders of various political parties including the BJP, candidates in the local assembly constituencies have been calling on the members of the Church hierarchy including the archbishops, bishops for the past few weeks to seek the votes of the members of the Catholic and Protestant sects of Christianity. Kerala will elect its 140-member legislative...