BJP in Kerala has started withering before taking roots in the State as infighting in the party reached  a crescendo. Rajasenan, maker of many hit movies and known by the name Man With Midas Touch, who had been with the BJP for the last seven years left the Hindutva brigade and joined the CPI(M) late Saturday evening.

Rajasenan’s action comes weeks after Mohan Lal, the Malayalam super star who is known for his soft Hindutva line, refused to screen the pro-BJP movie Kerala Dairy in theatres owned by him. His decision earned the wrath of  another superstar Srinivasan, a CPI-M sympathizer, that Lal was ungrateful  to his political masters.

“I wasted seven years of my life by being with the BJP. Since the day I joined the BJP, I lost many film projects and most of my colleagues started avoiding me . Though I worked hard from my side, the party’s State leadership put a veil between me and the central leadership,”  Rajasenan told The Pioneer.

He also said that the leadership of the Kerala BJP has been left without any clue of what to do in the present situation. Dr Jacob Thomas IPS and former Director General of Police, who too had joined the party after retirement from Government service is likely o follow suit. “If the party  leadership does not want my services, what I am supposed to do? The BJP leaders should know how to make my services effectively,” Dr Thomas told The Pioneer.

Elsewhere in the State the BJP is fast losing whatever acceptance it had among the people. Last week the BJP failed to win at least a single seat in the bye elections held to some of the local bodies. The party lost all the seats which it was holding while the UDF and LDF walked away with the honors.

The recent past saw the State BJP chief K Surendran sidelining many leaders like Sandeep Varrier and P Sivasankaran. “ Surendran is suffering from inferiority complex as he himself knows that he does not have the capability to lead the party,” said a senior BJP activist.