Thiruvananthapuram, May 23 (IANS) The CPI(M) is witnessing an unusual phase of internal dissent, with criticism of senior leader Pinarayi Vijayan intensifying across party committee meetings following a major electoral setback in Kerala.The discontent has surfaced even as the party holds a three-day review meeting in Delhi, which Vijayan is not attending. Party leaders are assessing the scale of the defeat and the growing dissatisfaction within the ranks.What has stunned the top CPI (M) leadersh…
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Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 (IANS) The United Democratic Front government led by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan has formally buried Kerala’s controversial SilverLine project and is eyeing an alternative broad-gauge high-speed rail corridor, setting the stage for a major political and infrastructure debate in the State.The move assumes significance as it was Satheesan himself, during his tenure as Leader of the Opposition, who spearheaded one of Kerala’s biggest political campaigns against the R…
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 (IANS) A row has broken out in the now beleaguered Kerala unit of the CPI-M after State Secretary M.V. Govindan on Friday brushed aside questions over the continued denial of party membership to Bineesh Kodiyeri.Govindan while talking to the media in Delhi, brushed aside the controversy with a smile, describing it merely as a local issue.He was speaking to reporters ahead of the party’s crucial three-day Central Committee meeting.However, behind the casual …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) In a moment that blended parliamentary tradition with rare political theatre, seven-time Congress legislator Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was on Friday elected Speaker of the 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly after a historic three-cornered contest that underscored the new political equations in the state.For the first time in the history of the Kerala Assembly, the election to the Speaker’s post witnessed candidates from all three political formations represent…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) A telling image from Kerala’s Kannur railway station has come to symbolise the dramatic political fall of former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the deep crisis engulfing his Communist Party of India-Marxist after its crushing Assembly election debacle.The photograph, now viral across social media, shows the once all-powerful former Chief Minister quietly waiting for a train alongside CPI-M leader K. K. Ragesh at Kannur station with only a handful of securit…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) The swearing-in of the newly elected members of the 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly began on Thursday morning, marking the formal start of a House transformed by one of the biggest political upheavals in the state’s recent history.The proceedings commenced at 9 a.m. after Pro Tem Speaker G. Sudhakaran, who was sworn in by Kerala Governor Rajendra V. Arlekar on Wednesday, took his seat in the Assembly.Legislators were called in alphabetical order to take the o…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 20 (IANS) For perhaps the first time in recent Kerala political history, the once tightly controlled inner circles of the CPI(M) have turned into arenas of open anger, frustration and brutal introspection, with former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and party state secretary M.V. Govindan facing an extraordinary wave of criticism across district committee and secretariat meetings following the Left Democratic Front’s crushing Assembly election defeat.What has especially…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) For the first time since the stunning electoral collapse of the Left Democratic Front in the Kerala Assembly elections, former Chief Minister and now Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan has publicly spoken about the defeat, and his carefully worded remarks come at a time when anger and rebellion are steadily building within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) itself. Addressing a party event in his hometown of Kannur on Tuesday, Vijayan said the Left governmen…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) In what is being widely viewed as the new United Democratic Front regime’s first major political offensive, the V.D. Satheesan government has ordered a high-profile reinvestigation into the controversial assault on Youth Congress and KSU workers by the gunmen of then Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan during the Nava Kerala Yatra in Alappuzha in December 2023.The Kerala Police has officially constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident that …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) Barely a day after V.D. Satheesan assumed office as the Chief Minister, the reopening of the North Gate of the Kerala Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram has emerged as one of the most politically-loaded images of the new regime.This is a deliberate attempt by the new United Democratic Front government to draw a sharp contrast with the decade-long rule of former Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan.For years, the Left government projected itself as an administration t…