The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has flagged the coming together of majority and minority communal forces ahead of the local body elections in 2025 to stoke social divisiveness and undermine the Left Democratic Front government and the party’s progressive and secular appeal. Speaking to mediapersons on Friday, CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan said Independent legislator P.V. Anvar’s acrimonious parting of ways with the LDF and the legislator’s relentless defamatory attacks against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, law enforcement and party leaders were the axis’s latest manifestation. Mr Govindan alleged that the “fundamentalist” Jamaat-e-Islami had secretly parleyed with the Hindu majoritarian Sangh Parivar recently. The Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamist organisations in its orbit were preparing the ground for the ascendancy of Hindutva forces in Kerala by stoking minority communalism.  Mr Govindan said fascist forces on either side of the religious spectrum were attempting to enhance each other’s appeal by resorting to socially divisive shadowboxing. He termed their stated enmity a political ruse. Though seemingly opposed, the Jamaat-e-Islami and Sangh Parivar complemented each other. Both threatened secular polity and sought …