The Kerala battle may be all about UDF vs LDF, but in one of the state’s most prominent Communist bastions, the BJP is making its presence felt. The village of the powerful CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, Pinarayi, is seeing open, door-to-door campaigning by a BJP candidate this time. It was a meeting held at Parapram near Pinarayi in 1939 that had paved the way for the formalisation of the communist party, that had been formed two years earlier, in the state.