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Chelakkara win, Palakkad vote share boost CPM’s confidence

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The triumph in Chelakkara and an improved showing in Palakkad have given the ruling CPM new confidence, organisationally and politically, to face the upcoming local body elections and the subsequent assembly elections as the anti-incumbency factor has hardly reflected in the bypoll results. Significantly, this was the first time Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan — CPM’s face in any political …

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1 month ago

Chelakkara assembly by-poll: CPM defies anti-incumbency trend with remarkable victory

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvanthapuram: CPM-led LDF candidate U R Pradeep achieved a remarkable victory in the Chelakkara assembly by-election, providing significant relief to the Pinarayi Vijayan government. Although the Left's victory margin decreased by 27,199 votes compared to the 2021 assembly elections, the Left leadership maintained that the victory confirmed the absence of any anti-incumbency sentiment. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated that the …

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1 month ago

Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy T20 tournament to begin in Vizag from Nov. 23

Deccan Chronicle

NTPC Simhadri appoints Sameer Sharma as new head of project Visakhapatnam – Sameer Sharma, a 36-year veteran of NTPC, has been appointed as Head of Project at NTPC Simhadri. CPM denounces proposed toll gates on rural roads Indian Navy showcases maritime capabilities at Bali Yatra 2024 The CPM's Anakapalli District Secretary, K. Lokanadham, has condemned the state government's proposal to …

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1 month ago

Public Campaign Comes to an End in Palakkad Assembly Bypoll

Deccan Chronicle

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 …

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1 month, 1 week ago

CM Pinarayi Vijayan, CPM back EP, allege agenda to help UDF & BJP

New Indian Express

T’PURAM/ALAPPUZHA: Even as senior CPM leader E P Jayarajan is feeling the heat over the ‘autobiography’ controversy, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM leadership have offered whole-hearted support to the former LDF convenor. Endorsing Jayarajan’s arguments, Pinarayi alleged that there was a deliberate move afoot to help the UDF and the BJP. Inaugurating the CPM area committee office at …

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CPM-led LDF Campaign Kicks Off in Kerala

Deccan Chronicle

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched the CPM-led LDF's election campaign for the upcoming by-election in Chelakara constituency. The chief minister targeted Congress leaders K Sudhakaran and V D Satheesan, accusing them of shielding RSS shakhas and venerating Golwalkar's portrait respectively. He also addressed the issue of gold smuggling in Malappuram, highlighting the high seizure of gold and questioning the …

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2 months ago

CPM Leader's Radicalizing Words Ignite Kerala Muslim Youth

New Indian Express

CPM leader P Jayarajan claims that PDP leader Abdul Nazar Madani played a significant role in radicalising Muslim youth in Kerala. He alleges that Madani's speeches, particularly during the demolition of Babri Masjid, played a crucial role in inciting extremist thoughts among Muslim minorities. The book also discusses the Islamic Sevak Sangh's involvement in providing arms training to Muslim youths, …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

CM Pinarayi Vijayan converting party into family business: MLA P V Anvar

New Indian Express

KEY EVENTS August 20: Anvar criticises the then district police chief S Sasidharan while inaugurating the district conference of the police association at MSP community hall in Malappuram August 30: Anvar holds a sit-in protest in front of the Malappuram police chief’s camp office, demanding a Crime Branch inquiry under the court’s observation into the disappearance of tree logs in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

BJP to focus on 60 assembly segments in Kerala

New Indian Express

KOCHI: The BJP state committee meeting held in Kochi on Saturday observed that the party has been able to garner the votes of the marginalised sections, Christian minorities and sympathisers of the CPM and Congress in the recently held Lok Sabha elections. Preparing for the assembly polls in 2026, the party will be focusing on 60 assembly segments where it …

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6 months ago

O R Kelu first tribal leader from CPM to become a minister

Deccan Chronicle

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sixty-seven years after the first communist government assumed power in Kerala, and sixty years after the formation of CPI, the Left parties have for the first time decided to make a leader from the scheduled tribe community a minister in the state. O R Kelu, 54, elected from Mananthavady assembly constituency in the Wayanad district, will replace the sole …

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6 months, 1 week ago

JD(S) Continuation in Kerala's LDF Becomes Untenable

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: JD workers in Karnataka may be elated over the induction of their leader H D Kumaraswamy into the Narendra Modi government but their counterparts in Kerala have landed in a tight spot. For the past ten months, since the JD decided to join the NDA, the Kerala unit of the party has landed in a peculiar situation. The CPM …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

CPM rout: End of road for veteran leaders in Kerala?

New Indian Express

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 …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

India election results 2024: Winners and losers of all past Lok Sabha votes

Al Jazeera

From 1951 to 2019, Congress and the BJP have seen highs and lows in India’s parliamentary elections. Nehru became the first prime minister of the country Seats won: The Congress won 364 out of 489 seats The Congress won 364 out of 489 seats Vote percentage of winner: About 45 percent of the vote About 45 percent of the vote …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Southern Lights | Rahul Gandhi’s Rae Bareli candidature triggers discontent and omen of neglect in Wayanad

Hindustan Times

Voters in Wayanad, Congress party workers, and its allies in the INDIA alliance, are feeling shortchanged about Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest in Raebareli. While the CPM has raised the issue of Rahul’s seriousness and commitment to Wayanad, the most backward district in Kerala, local Congress party workers fear giving up Wayanad may have adverse implications on the 2026 assembly …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

LDF hopeful of winning majority seats in Kerala: State Secretary M V Govindan

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretary M V Govindan on Monday exuded confidence that the ruling Left Democratic Front would win a majority of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala. Addressing a press conference after the state secretariat of the CPM, the first meeting of the party leadership after the polls on April 26, Govindan said the people had rejected Narendra …

Kerala State Bjp Cpm Ldf Jayarajan Govindan

8 months ago

CPM files complaint with Delhi Police chief over PM Modi's 'infiltrator' remark

India Today

The Communist Party of India on Monday sent a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent "distribution of wealth" remark to the chief of Delhi Police after a police station in the city allegedly refused to register its objection. This comes a day after the Prime Minister made the remark at an election rally in Rajasthan and alleged …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Ex-Union minister confident of winning South Kolkata: 'Fight is against scams'

India Today

Former Union Minister and BJP candidate from South Kolkata, Debasree Chowdhury, exuded confidence on winning the Trinamool Congress bastion and said her fight was against "scams and corruption". Interestingly, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee won this seat in 1991 when she was with the Congress. HISTORY OF SOUTH KOLKATA CONSTITUENCY Kolkata Dakshin is a predominantly urban seat and comprises …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Elections that shaped India | Janata Party wave takes over in 1977

The Hindu

The wheels for the 1977 election were set in motion years earlier— by the imposition of Emergency and unpopular policy choices. “Has she been swept away for good from the political scene?”Sanjay Gandhi, too, lost to Janata Party’s Ravindra Pratap Singh, from another Congress stronghold – Amethi. States at a glance: Madhya Pradesh: Bharatiya Lok Dal: 37, Congress: 1, RPK:1, …

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9 months, 1 week ago

CAA notification set to turn up LS poll heat between Congress, CPM in Kerala

New Indian Express

KOZHIKODE: The NDA government’s decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act will be an opportunity for the Congress to regain the lost confidence of the Muslim community while the CPM will use the issue for a further consolidation of Muslim votes in its favour. The immediate reactions from the Congress and the CPM leaders prove that CAA will be a …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Former Kerala CM’s daughter Padmaja joins BJP ahead of Lok Sabha polls

Hindustan Times

In a setback for the Congress unit in Kerala ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, its leader and daughter of former chief minister K Karunakaran, Padmaja Venugopal crossed over to the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. A former KPCC general secretary, Padmaja complained that many within the Congress worked to defeat her in the Thrissur assembly constituency in the 2021 …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Shashi Tharoor on possibly contesting against Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Never needed to attack...

Hindustan Times

Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said in his political career of 15 years, he never needed to attack his critics and opponents. On the prospect of a strong fight in his constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, as BJP has fielded Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar from the seat, the three-term MP from Thiruvananthapuram said the CPM candidate should not be …

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10 months ago

Bengal ministers visit violence-hit Sandeshkhali, CPM leader stopped midway

India Today

West Bengal ministers Sujit Bose and Partha Bhowmick on Saturday visited trouble-torn Sandeshkhali to take stock of the situation, while a CPI delegation led by Minakshi Mukhopadhay was prevented by the police from venturing into interior areas of the region in North 24 Parganas district. State Fire Services Minister Bose and Irrigation Minister Partha Bhowmick, accompanied by Sandeshkhali MLA Sukumar …

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10 months ago

CPM goes all-out to outwit Kerala Congress

New Indian Express

A lot seems to be at stake for the CPM in Kerala in the coming parliamentary elections. Apart from setting the electoral record straight following the humiliation of 2019 when it won just one seat, the ruling party is also looking to shake off the perception that it has lost some ground after winning the second consecutive term in the …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Opposition Protest in Kerala Assembly Over Allegations Against CM’s Daughter

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvananthapuram: Opposition Congress-led UDF walked out of the Kerala assembly over the allegations of financial irregularities related to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter Veena Vijayan's now-defunct IT company Exalogic Solutions. Mathew Kuzhalnadan of Congress moved the motion in assembly a day after the Ministry of Corporate Affairs handed over the case against Veena's company Exalogic to the Serious Fraud Investigation …

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Chelakkara win, Palakkad vote share boost CPM’s confidence

Chelakkara assembly by-poll: CPM defies anti-incumbency trend with remarkable victory

Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy T20 tournament to begin in Vizag from Nov. 23

Public Campaign Comes to an End in Palakkad Assembly Bypoll

CM Pinarayi Vijayan, CPM back EP, allege agenda to help UDF & BJP

CPM-led LDF Campaign Kicks Off in Kerala

CPM Leader's Radicalizing Words Ignite Kerala Muslim Youth

CM Pinarayi Vijayan converting party into family business: MLA P V Anvar

BJP to focus on 60 assembly segments in Kerala

O R Kelu first tribal leader from CPM to become a minister

JD(S) Continuation in Kerala's LDF Becomes Untenable

CPM rout: End of road for veteran leaders in Kerala?

India election results 2024: Winners and losers of all past Lok Sabha votes

Southern Lights | Rahul Gandhi’s Rae Bareli candidature triggers discontent and omen of neglect in Wayanad

LDF hopeful of winning majority seats in Kerala: State Secretary M V Govindan

CPM files complaint with Delhi Police chief over PM Modi's 'infiltrator' remark

Ex-Union minister confident of winning South Kolkata: 'Fight is against scams'

Elections that shaped India | Janata Party wave takes over in 1977

CAA notification set to turn up LS poll heat between Congress, CPM in Kerala

Former Kerala CM’s daughter Padmaja joins BJP ahead of Lok Sabha polls

Shashi Tharoor on possibly contesting against Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Never needed to attack...

Bengal ministers visit violence-hit Sandeshkhali, CPM leader stopped midway

CPM goes all-out to outwit Kerala Congress

Opposition Protest in Kerala Assembly Over Allegations Against CM’s Daughter