Thiruvananthapuram: The public campaign for the Palakkad assembly by-election concluded on Monday, with hundreds of supporters of the three main contenders—the Congress-led UDF, the CPM-led LDF, and the BJP-led NDA—gathering at the town centre for the grand finale. The leading candidates—Rahul Mamkootathil from the UDF, Dr. P Sarin from the LDF, and C Krishna Kumar from the BJP—rallied their supporters …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The CPM’s second consecutive big defeat in the Lok Sabha elections has put question marks over the future of veteran leaders. The CPM had fielded 15 candidates ranging from a politburo member to state committee members and sitting MLAs, besides its lone sitting MP, on the party symbol. The defeats of politburo member A Vijayaraghavan, central committee members …
Kochi: A voter turnout of 73.05% was recorded at the end of polling in the Puthuppally Assembly by-election in Kerala on Tuesday, the returning officer said. Brisk polling was seen in the early morning hours at several polling stations in the constituency as voters braved heavy rains to cast their ballots. The by-election was necessitated by the death of veteran …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ban on PFI has evoked mixed reactions from political parties with the CPM, Congress and Muslim League questioning its effectiveness and the BJP terming the action inevitable considering nation’s security. Similarly, the violence and retaliatory killings indulged by the organisations like PFI should also end,” he said. If any outfit, be it PFI or the RSS, if they …
Fifty-eight years after it split from the original party and the beginning of its existence as the Communist Party of India in 1964, the party is in a crisis. The reshaping of the political space between 2014 and now pits the hard right-wing, identity-based, communally divisive, majoritarian politics of Hindutva of the BJP embarked on its mission to convert the …
The second Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala sworn-in on Thursday, backed by its assertion of having conformed to COVID protocol, claims many firsts. A Curation in Two Phases Captain Vijayan, unlike in a football team, brooks no interference from the management and while the jury is divided whether it is a collective decision of the CPM think tank or a …