Congress, BJP attempted to cast govt. under shadow of suspicion: A. Vijayaraghavan
Communist Party of India (Marxist) acting State secretary A. Vijayaraghavan said the Left Democratic Front (LDF)’s governance track record had helped it weather a withering campaign of lies and coast to victory in the local body polls.
The Congress and the Bharathiya Janata Party had attempted to cast the Pinarayi Vijayan government under a shadow of suspicion during the election period.
Central agencies had actively assisted the Opposition parties. The people have delivered a forceful repudiation of their odious Machiavellian machinations.
A majority of Muslims were repelled by the attempts of the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to mollycoddle the fundamentalist Jamate-e-Islami and its political arm, the Welfare Party of India (WPI).
Welfare measures outweigh corruption charges
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Factionalism dashes BJP’s hopes for a better show
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Factionalism dashes BJP’s hopes for a better show
What’s the point in putting up a brave face when you have ceded your citadel, asks a Congress leader, exasperation palpable in his voice.
The rhetorical question is what the political affairs committee of the Congress will be grappling with when it meets on Thursday to discuss the outcome the local body polls in which major strongholds of the United Democratic Front(UDF) in central Kerala gave way.
“It’s unprecedented that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) has pipped us in the Pala municipality and in six of the eight panchayats that are part of the Puthupally Assembly constituency held by Oommen Chandy for half a century,” says the Congress leader. Senior leader V.D. Satheesan thinks that it is the ‘organisational weakness’ that has impacted the party in all districts except Ernakulam
It had evoked divergent responses within the Congress leadership
The nature of the payoff of the tactical local-level electoral adjustments between the Congress-led the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Welfare Party of India (WPI) of the Jamaat-e-Islami will be debated in the coming days. Be that as it may, the tie-up that continues to evoke divergent responses within the Congress leadership in the State has apparently turned advantageous to both sides in many parts of the Malabar region.
The electoral outcome of the UDF-WPI adjustment in many parts of the region is keenly watched amid the differences between Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran and Congress MP K. Muraleedharan over the tie-up and the opposition from prominent pro-UDF Sunni faction. It is premature to say that the tie-up solely helped the UDF manage to perform well in the Malabar region, especially Kannur, Kasaragod and Malappuram.
Malabar region, a saving grace for the UDF
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Wins Kannur Corporation, more municipalities in Kozhikode
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Wins Kannur Corporation, more municipalities in Kozhikode
The leadership of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Malabar region can now breathe easier. For the Congress-led coalition managed to dodge the setback it faced in the in local body elections in the southern and central parts of the State.
The UDF may not have been able to make any major dent in the LDF’s traditional domination in the region. But it remained largely intact here. In fact, it moderately improved its tally, if its victory in the Kannur Corporation and its capture of some panchayats in Kozhikode and Malappuram, among others, are anything to go by.
Counting of votes in Kerala civic polls tomorrow, all three fronts confident
Postal votes along with those cast by Covid-19 patients and those in quarantine will be counted first, followed by the general votes on the EVMs. Trends across local bodies are expected to become clear by noon. Updated: December 15, 2020 8:15:24 pm
The elections are an opportunity for all three political fronts CPM-led LDF, Congress-led UDF and the BJP-led NDA to demonstrate their strength at the grassroot level and thus gain an upper hand going into the Assembly elections next year.
The votes in the
hotly-contested local body elections in Kerala, a precursor to the Assembly elections next year, will be counted starting 8 am Wednesday.