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Incumbent Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan scored a 38% approval rating in the Times Now C-Voter survey as the most popular CM candidate. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan | Photo Credit: PTI
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LDF will break the 44-year-old tradition of an incumbent never winning a successive term in the southern state
Pinarayi Vijayan scored a 38% approval rating in the Times Now C-Voter survey
Ramesh Chennithala is way behind with just a 4-5% rating in most pre-poll surveys
Thiruvananthapuram: Almost all pre-poll surveys indicate that the CPM-led Left Democratic Front is all set to create history by winning the forthcoming Assembly elections in Kerala.
Tamil Nadu assembly elections held amid worsening social crisis in India
Assembly elections will be held in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu starting on April 6. The southern Indian states of Kerala and Pondicherry (Puducherry) will go to the polls at the same time, while the eastern states of West Bengal and Assam will be held in phases starting on March 27. The Election Commission of India has stated that election results will be announced on May 2.
Palaniswami with Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam in 2018. (Image Credit: Press Information Bureau on behalf of Prime Minister s Office, Government of India under the ID 129388 and CNR 116815.)
An odd political hybridisation, with historical precedent
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In Kerala, the BJP’s invitation to the IUML is not outlandish given their predecessors’ pragmatic politics of the past
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In Kerala, the BJP’s invitation to the IUML is not outlandish given their predecessors’ pragmatic politics of the past
The State of Kerala recently witnessed what many would call an odd political moment. In the middle of the bustle of preparations for the State Assembly elections, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala, Sobha Surendran, recently extended an invitation to the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to join the National Democratic Alliance fold, with a rider this was provided the IUML shed its ‘communal’ policies.
Infiltration will be a thing of the past, says Amit Shah
Sounding the poll bugle at Margherita in Tinsukia district here on Sunday afternoon, Union Home Minister Amit Shah went hammer and tongs at the Congress and its alliance political parties Congress forged alliance with anti-India forces in Bengal, Kerala, Assam
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DIGBOI: Sounding the poll bugle at Margherita in Tinsukia district here on Sunday afternoon, Union Home Minister Amit Shah went hammer and tongs at the Congress and its alliance political parties. Shah asserted that there will be no more agitations in the State and infiltration will be a thing of the past in the next five years if the BJP is voted in power.
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