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KANNUR: Congress state president K Sudhakaran has endorsed senior party leader Ramesh Chennithala as a potential chief ministerial candidate, with the next assembly elections scheduled for 2026. Addressing a press meet in Kannur, Sudhakaran said that Chennithala, given his experience, deserves a claim to the chief minister’s post. The comments came in response to SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan’s …

The United Democratic Front took out a protest march to the District Police Chief’s office here on Wednesday condemning the midnight police raids on the hotel rooms of women leaders of the Congress. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan may support your action, but the people of Kerala will not,” he said, adding that the police should explain who ordered the disgraceful …

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The Congress in Kerala on Sunday threatened legal action against the allegedly illegal preventive detention of some of its party leaders and workers during Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's visit to Kozhikode for an event. Some Congress workers were taken into custody by the police while they were standing on a road close to the route to be taken by the …

The Kochi Police registered a case against Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president K Sudhakaran on Thursday for his remark that chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan was “running around like a dog”. Sudhakaran had made a comment on Pinarayi Vijayan to local media here, “We should see that the CM is running around like this. Is there any one to control him?” …

On Thursday, the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee mustered citizens at 2,000 localities across the State to press the Bharatiya Janata Party -led Central government to curb the spiralling fuel and cooking gas prices. Mr. Sudhakaran said the Centre had dismantled the fuel price control mechanism. Congress Working Committee member and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy led the protest at the …

Kottayam: The Congress in Kerala on Thursday flayed the ruling LDF government over its alleged failure in dealing with the floods and landslides, which have claimed 42 lives in the state, following heavy rains last week and termed the Disaster Management Authority as a "disaster". Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, V D Satheesan, told reporters that Chief Minister …

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Kerala's new Congress chief K Sudhakaran went to the same college and some of their recollections have created a stir in media as they do not seem to be long-lost friends. In an interview given to Manorama Weekly, Sudhakaran said he had beaten up Vijayan when both of them were students in Government Brennen …

In a sensational disclosure that could spark a major political row in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has claimed that the newly-coronated Kerala PCC President K Sudhakaran had once planned to kidnap his children. According to the reports, speaking to reporters on Friday, Vijayan revealed that a former Congress local leader and Sudhakaran’s close friend had called on him at …

Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala, V.K. Sasikala and her husband M. Natarajan had humble beginnings but went on to form what was called the Mannargudi Mafia using their proximity to J. Jayalalithaa, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu. An Iron Grip over Administration After MGR’s death in December 1987, Jayalalithaa launched a bid for chief ministership in the 1989 Assembly elections, aided …