Is Kerala the next laboratory for BJP to try out ‘Operation Kamala’?
April 06, 2021
K Surendran×
Will it be the suitably ‘muddy’ but untested terrain of Kerala that the BJP may choose to enact ‘Operation Kamala’, which it has carried out with clinical precision in Puducherry after blazing a trail in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur and Karnataka and ultimately forming governments in those States?
Observers here have been debating this possibility after the President of the State unit of the party, K Surendran, went on record more than once saying that the party would rule ‘if it manages to get 35 to 40 seats’ in the 140-member Assembly’, where a contender party/front needs 71 seats to form a government on its own.
It is anybody’s game in Kerala
April 04, 2021
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan - R S Iyer×
However, pre-poll surveys suggest the Pinarayi-led LDF govt could be back The grand finale to the Assembly poll campaign in Kerala was banned by the Election Commission based on a request by the State’s Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena, ruling out what would have been a pulsating end to one of the acrimonious campaigning on show in recent times .
Early bird advantage
However, that’s not the only outstanding feature about the campaigns carried out by the Left Democratic Front (LDF)-led government, main Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the single-day elections on Tuesday.
Kerala Assembly rejects resolution moved by UDF against Speaker; Opposition stages walkout during discussion The UDF had moved the resolution against Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan in the wake of allegations against him in the dollar smuggling case and over the alleged extravagance in the various construction activities carried out in the Assembly complex File image of Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan. Facebook@PSRKMLA
Thiruvananthapuram: The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) on Thursday moved a resolution, against Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan in the Kerala Assembly seeking his resignation, and staged a walkout during the discussion, after which it was rejected by the House.
Uniindia: Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 14 (UNI) Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) on Thursday staged a walkout from Kerala Assembly in protest against denial of an adjournment motion on the controversial diplomatic baggage gold smuggling case.