New Delhi: Trying to play its Hindutva and nationalism cards in Marxist-ruled Kerala, the BJP will be holding a lecture on nationalism, and has invited the party’s controversial MP from Unnao, Sakshi Maharaj, to speak on the issue.

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, who has been taking up Ram temple issue, is also one of the key speakers at the lecture organised by the party’s Kerala unit’s intellectual cell in Kochi on May 27.

Though attacks on the Sangh Parivar cadre allegedly by the ruling Left party’s cadre would be part of the discourse, the Left-led state government’s “appeasement politics” will also be highlighted.

The state government’s alleged support to a Christian fringe group, accused of encroaching government land near Munnar, for vote-bank politics and its failure to check fringe elements involved in “anti-national activities”, would also figure during the lecture.

Statements given by some Left leaders, including by Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury when Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon was hanged, might also be used to portray the state’s ruling party as “anti-national”.