As Pinarayi is all set for 2nd innings, Congressmen look at other options March 14, 2021, 11:28 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
Barely a fortnight after Rahul Gandhi remarked about how he finds politics in South “so much more refreshing “, “so much more issue based” than what he saw in the North – that is after he chose to represent Waynad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala there have been a series of events in the state Congress unit in past week that have come to debunk his claims.
BJP announces 112 candidates for Kerala Assembly polls, fields E Sreedharan from Palakkad
BJP on Sunday announced that it would contest on 115 seats in the Kerala Assembly elections, fielding state party chief K Surendran from two constituencies (Manjeshwar and Konni).
advertisement Metroman E Sreedharan will contest from Palakkad (File)
BJP on Sunday released a list of 112 candidates for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections, fielding state party chief K Surendran from two constituencies (Manjeshwar and Konni) while Metroman E Sreedharan will contest from Palakkad. BJP will contest on 115 seats in Kerala.
Addressing a press conference, BJP National General Secretary Arun Singh said, In Kerala, BJP will be contesting 115 seats and the rest of 25 seats will be left for four parties. State BJP chief K Surendran will contest from two constituencies - from Manjeshwar in Kasaragod and Konni in Pathanamthitta.
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).
Congress to contest 91 seats in Kerala, list likely to be out by March 14
Congress to contest 91 seats in Kerala, list likely to be out by March 14
The Kerala unit of Congress party is going to contest in 91 out of the 140 constituencies for the April 6 assembly polls with the final list likely to be released by Sunday
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The Kerala unit of Congress party is going to contest in 91 out of the 140 constituencies for the April 6 assembly polls with the final list likely to be released by Sunday.
State PCC president Mullappally Ramachandran, leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ramesh Chennithala and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters in Delhi that the party will be putting up candidates in 91 seats and candidates have been unanimously finalised in 81 segments.
Updated Mar 13, 2021 | 10:45 IST
Last assembly polls, the BJP got a 9.97 per cent vote swing in Nemom when it wrest the seat from CPI(M). Representational Image.
Thiruvananthapuram: Nemom, a suburb in Kerala s capital Thiruvananthapuram is becoming a focal point of the state assembly polls, with all three fronts betting huge for a victory on the lone seat that BJP managed to win in 2016 assembly polls.
The BJP leaders had referred Nemom as the Gujarat of Kerala and to upset the apple cart of BJP, Congress is playing its cards close to the chest. For Nemom constituency we will be fielding a strong contender, who will have people s acceptance, said Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President ( KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran.