Rahul brigade to camp in Red bastion in north Kerala during polls
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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 1 : A team of young professionals, NSUI and Youth Congress leaders under Rahul Gandhi are chalking out grand plans for the upcoming Kerala Assembly election scheduled to be held in April.
The Congress high command has already put in place Mission 60 - aiming to win 60 seats for the Congress and of these the party wants 15 seats from north Kerala which is a Red bastion with CPM and Left candidates winning from these areas. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPM politburo member and former state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan also hail from the region.
Kerala: Ahead of assembly polls, rival fronts shift focus to communal polarisation
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Thiruvananthapuram: Keralaâs widely-accepted secular credentials notwithstanding, the stateâs rival fronts have mounted an unabashedly brazen attempt at communal polarisation.
The ball was set rolling by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his state party secretary A Vijayaraghavan, both raising a bogey about the vital say that Muslim League allegedly exercises in the affairs of the Congress and the United Democratic Front that it heads.
The provocation was an announcement by the Indian Union Muslim League leaders that P K Kunhalikutty, currently an MP, is planning to resign his parliament seat and shift his sphere of activity to the state so as to take up the partyâs operations in the state.
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Aishwarya Kerala Yatra being led by Ramesh Chennithala begins from Kumbala
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Aishwarya Kerala Yatra being led by Ramesh Chennithala begins from Kumbala
Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the rule of the United Democratic Front (UDF) was a time of development and protection. However, the State was mired in violent politics, corruption, and crime under the Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule.
Inaugurating the Aishwarya Kerala Yatra being led by Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala at Kumbala in Kasaragod on Sunday, Mr. Chandy said every allegation raised by Mr. Chennithala proved to be true and that he led the procession as a winner.
KC(M) had contested 15 and LJD in seven seats
The exit of the Jose K. Mani faction of the Kerala Congress (M) and the the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) from the United Democratic Front (UDF) has prompted the Congress central leadership to stand firm on the party taking over the seats vacated by them for the Assembly polls.
One of the reasons, senior leaders cite is that the legislators of the Congress has been on the decline over the past few elections. Last time, the Congress contested 87 seats and emerged victories only in 22 segments, indicating that its strike rate has been abysmally poor far below its dominant constituent, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which contested 24 seats and won 22 segments.