Why Congress May Not Come To Power In KeralaâEver Again
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - Mar 14, 2021 10:49 AM
Oommen Chandy campaigning (Twitter)
Snapshot
Without the Nair vote they lost some years ago, a substantial portion of the Christian vote, and the OBC vote, the Congress in Kerala is reduced to what is meant to be â a subset of the Muslim League.
Five years ago,
Swarajya posed a simple question in the wake of the 2016 assembly elections in Kerala: could Oommen Chandy be the last Congress Chief Minister of the state?
That doubt was impelled by the sustained, dwindling un-winnability of Hindu candidates within the Congress fold, and the comprehensive manner in which the Nair vote shifted from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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