Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 15 (IANS) A crucial steering committee meeting of the Kerala Congress(Mani) led by Rajya Sabha MP Jose K. Mani will be held in Kottayam on Friday, once again placing the spotlight on a party whose political journey has been defined by splits, realignments and an unerring instinct for survival.Formed in 1964, the Kerala Congress has, over the decades, lived up to the often quoted political description that it “grows as it splits and splits as it grows”.Today, six facti…
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Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 7 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly (LoP) V.D. Satheesan on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on senior CPI(M) leader and Central Committee member A.K. Balan, accusing him of adopting a Sangh Parivar-style communal campaign through his recent remarks linking Jamaat-e-Islami to a potential UDF government.Satheesan said Balan’s statement that Jamaat-e-Islami would control the Home Department if the UDF comes to power was not an isolated political comment but…
Palakkad, Jan 6 (IANS) Even as the CPI remains the second-largest ally in the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala, relations between the two Communist parties have been visibly strained for some time now.What had largely remained simmering discontent has increasingly begun to spill into the open, underscored by sharp public remarks from CPI(M) Palakkad district secretariat member S. Ajayakumar, who launched a scathing attack on the CPI at a public meeting in Mannoor, Otta…
Alappuzha, Jan 2 (IANS) SNDP Yogam General Secretary Vellappally Natesan on Friday reiterated his criticism of the Muslim League and the CPI, stressing that his comments are issue-based and directed at party policies, not at any community.Speaking to the media in Alappuzha, he clarified that attempts to portray him as anti-Muslim are misleading.Vellappally accused the Muslim League of failing to implement social justice while in power and of attempting to turn the Muslim community against the Ez…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 31 (IANS) Kerala CPI State Secretary Binoy Viswam on Wednesday acknowledged that sections of the electorate had drifted away from the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the recent local body elections, but asserted that the front’s core support base remained intact.Calling the verdict a wake-up call, Viswam said the Left must learn lessons from the setback, make timely corrections and move forward without delay.He candidly admitted that the government had failed to effectiv…