Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 19 (IANS) The 16th and final session of the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly will open on Tuesday with the customary address by Governor Rajendra V. Arlekar, setting the stage for what is widely expected to be one of the most combative sessions in recent years.With Assembly elections due in April – May, the session doubles up as the last formal political battleground before the State slips into full-fledged poll mode.As things stand, the Congress-led United Democratic Fro…
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Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 16 (IANS) Those who once publicly humiliated Kerala Congress (M) founder K.M. Mani are now granting him a memorial — a reality that did not escape Leader of the Opposition (LoP) V.D. Satheesan on Friday, as he criticised the CPI-M while addressing speculation over the political future of Kerala Congress (M). Reports had suggested that the party, founded by K.M. Mani and now led by his son Jose K. Mani, might leave the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) to join the Congre…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) As Kerala heads into a crucial Assembly election in April–May 2026, the next government will inherit not just political expectations but a deeply strained economy and a series of unresolved social, environmental and governance challenges. From mounting public debt and inflation to climate disasters, agrarian distress and youth migration, the stakes could hardly be higher.A huge financial crisis awaits the new government after the state Assembly elections.Kerala…
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, Jan 1 (IANS) For nearly a decade, Pinarayi Vijayan has dominated Kerala’s political landscape with an authority that a few Chief Ministers in the state’s history have wielded.Within the CPI(M), he has emerged as the unchallenged helmsman and within the government, the final arbiter. That aura of invincibility, however, is beginning to fray — and the most telling sign is not coming from the opposition, but from within the Left Democratic Front (LDF) itself.The first salvo…