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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan delivered a scathing speech at the LDF convention in Chelakkara, criticizing both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. He highlighted the issue of communalism, the central government's neglect towards the state, and the recent communal clashes that took place outside Kerala. Pinarayi also pointed out that Congress lost more than 84,000 votes in the …

KAPETTA : Annie Raja, the LDF candidate for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, filed her nomination at the collectorate on Wednesday. Glady Vaiphei Hunjan, a Kuki-Zo community activist in Manipur, Tamil Nadu Minority Commission member Thamimun Ansari and victims of alleged police brutality in Sathyamangalam forests, took part in the roadshow. LDF parliamentary constituency election committee chairman C K Saseendran, …

Thiruvananthapuram: Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Tuesday faced angry protests from the ruling LDF workers and CPM-led Students Federation of India during his visit to Idukki district to inaugurate the Karunavam Family Security Scheme of the Vyapyari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi, a prominent organisation of traders. The governor's visit took place amid hartal and black flag demonstrations organized by the Left-led …

Congress workers took out victory laps across Kerala to celebrate Chandy Oommen’s emphatic by-election win on Friday on the party’s home turf in Puthupally Assembly constituency. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president K. Sudhakaran said the Congress has carved a clear path to victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and beyond. Mr. Sudhakaran said the by-election victories in the two …

As the groundswell of anger over the death of three persons by a raging wild gaur continues to rock the high-range settlements of Central Travancore, the issue on Sunday took a political turn with a war of words between the Catholic church and Forest Minister A.K. The episode began to unfold in the morning when Mr. Saseendran, while addressing the …

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took Kerala’s commercial capital Kochi by storm on Monday, quite literally, leading a mega roadshow and addressing a mammoth youth meet “Yuvam” — modifying Kerala. They are responsible for the growing unemployment and corruption, he said, adding: “I am sure people of Kerala will work hard to defeat these two forces.” He attacked the CPI-led …

Kochi: The shine of the highly trumpeted ‘second coming’ of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is lost within weeks of its assumption of power, following expose of a massive loot of forest and other governmental wealth along the fabled Western Ghats and beyond. A re-energised Congress and the United Democratic Front it leads energetically took up …

As enthusiasm surrounding the upcoming assembly elections in Kerala reaches its peak, a prominent figure missing from the campaigning phase is Velikkakath Sankaran Achuthanandan, one of the tallest communist leaders in the country. After the 2016 assembly elections — in which the Left Democratic Front returned to power — he took a political back seat. Such was Achuthanandan’s political clout …