The first opinion poll ahead of Kerala’s assembly elections in April next year has predicted a narrow win for the ruling Left Democratic Front, while also forecasting a 20% increase in vote share for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. The opinion poll, conducted between June 18 and 29 among 10,409 persons, predicts that the Left […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has, for the first time, used his daily Coronavirus update to attack a newspaper’s coverage of the crisis in the first sign that the Left Front is worried about the work-in-progress alliance of the Kerala unit of Jamaat-e-Islami — which works to establish the Islamic way of life in India […]
Swaraj India, the fledgling political party under the leadership of former AAP leaders such as Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, announced that a large chunk of AAP’s office bearers in Kerala have joined the party. These include 77 elected State Coordination Committee members and around 700 volunteers, according to a statement from the party. Among […]
A Facebook page claiming to represent Praveen Togadia’s AntarRashtreeya Hindu Parishad — which positions itself as an ‘alternative Hindu organization’ to the Sangh Parivar in Kerala — has claimed responsibility for the destruction of a Church built as part of a movie set on the Periyar riverbed in Kerala. The page posted pictures of some […]
Kerala government today announced that the total number of Coronavirus patients in the state has fallen to just 34, after 61 people recovered today and no new cases have come to light. With this, the state has reported no new COVID-19 cases in three out of the last four days. The state still has 372 […]
A 38-year-old man from Kunnamkulam in Kerala reportedly committed suicide on the third day of the pan-India Coronavirus shutdown in Kerala because he could not get his daily dose of alcohol. Sanoj, a resident of Thuvanoor near Kunnamkulam was found dead today morning. According to the statements of his relatives, he was showing signs of […]
Tripti Desai, the gender rights activist who was forced to turn back from the Kochi airport last year by protestors, has once again landed in Kerala with a request to be escorted to Sabarimala temple by the police. However, BJP activists got wind of Desai’s plans and confronted her in the city. Some of the […]
Early trends from Kerala by-poll indicates that the Congress Party needs a major operation if it is to come back to power in Kerala in 2021. Of the four sitting seats held by the Congress that went to poll, it is set to lose two, retaining only Ernakulam. On a positive note, it has put […]
Five months, it seems, is a long time in politics, certainly long enough for the electorate in Kerala to forgive, if not forget, the Left Front’s decision to ‘desecrate’ the holy shrine of Sabarimala. The Left Front has emerged as the undisputed and unexpected winner in today’s results of the high-profile Pala by-election, but it […]
A case has been filed by the Kerala Police against new media entrepreneur and journalist Shajan Skariah of MarunadanMalayali.com for ‘misleading essential services forces’ and ‘causing nuisance’ after he questioned the utilization of the funds collected in the aftermath of last year’s funds. Skariah had put up a video on Facebook and Youtube in which […]
The state wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) seems to have decided to win back the support of Hindu segments of the population, particularly savarnas (those with caste), to overcome a drop seen in its vote-share after the government sent a team of policemen and activists inside a temple last year. The forced […]
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, state chief for Kerala CPIM and the most vocal proponent of a hard-line stand on the Sabarimala issue, said he sticks to his earlier stand on the issue, despite the negative results in recent polls. The Left Front in Kerala has been reduced to 1 seat from 8 seats in the Parliamentary elections […]
While the Left Front was expected to lose Hindu votes due to the Sabarimala issue, a closer look at voting numbers from Kerala reveals that Sabarimala hit both LDF and UDF, but the UDF was able to sail through with increased support from minorities. Even as Hindu voters shifted their votes to the BJP to […]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to break new ground in Kerala, a state that it has found notoriously difficult to conquer despite trying for nearly half a century. The saffron party, which is now ruling in 16 out of 29 states in India, has largely failed to make electoral inroads in the state […]
Congress leader K Sudhakaran, the UDF candidate from Kannur, found himself fending off some unwanted attention after a campaign video irked netizens for ostensibly portraying women in bad light. Netizens accused the video, shared by Sudhakaran’s official Facebook page, of sending a message that educating women is pointless and that they can never do a […]
The second opinion poll released by Kerala-based Asianet News showed gains for the Left and the BJP in Kerala at the expense of UDF, which continued to lead the tally. The new survey also predicted a defeat for Congress’ Shashi Tharoor at the hands of the BJP, a party that has never won a Lok […]
“The more it grows, the more it splinters; the more it splinters, the more it grows” – this is how KM Mani had described Kerala Congress, the third largest component of Congress-led United Democratic Front or UDF. He couldn’t have been more prescient. Kerala Congress’ existence through more than half-a-century has only served to underline […]
KM Mani, a stalwart of Kerala politics, passed away today. He was 86. Mani, who led the biggest faction of Kerala Congress, breathed his last at Lakeshore Hospital in Kochi. Mani was admitted to the hospital in the first week of April with a respiratory-related illness. A medical bulletin said that he had been suffering […]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to field firebrand leader K Surendran, who rose to prominence in the wake of the recent Sabarimala protests, from the crucial Pathanamthitta constituency. Pathanamthitta is one of the two Lok Sabha constituencies where the BJP is projected to be on a strong wicket, not least because it is home […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan today said no devotee of Ayyappa feels offended by the way two women were ‘facilitated’ to enter the Sabarimala temple and that the protests being seen on the streets are politically motivated. “When news came out about entry of women into the shrine (yesterday), there was no spontaneous protests,” Vijayan […]
