BJP jumps at chance to fish for Nair votes, but NSS refuses to take bait Meanwhile, dismissing all speculations, the NSS leadership clarified that the Society’s note of thanks to the Centre was not political in nature. Share Via Email | A+A A- Express News Service KOTTAYAM: As elections to the state assembly nears, the state leadership of the BJP has commenced its efforts to woo the Nair Service Society (NSS), one of the biggest caste-based socio-cultural organisations in the state. On Monday, BJP state president K Surendran shared on his Facebook page an editorial article that appeared in the latest edition of NSS mouthpiece ‘Service’, which thanks Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for their tweets on Mannam Jayanthi this year. According to Surendran, NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair had also sent letters to Modi and Shah, thanking them for bringing the philosophies espoused by Mannathu Padmanabhan, the founder acharya of NSS, to international attention through their tweets.