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Kerala elections: CPM's bold assembly poll ticket gamble- The New Indian Express

Kerala elections: CPM’s bold assembly poll ticket gamble
Despite being aware of the risks involved, the party valiantly chose to stick to its radical decision of not fielding those who have contested the last two Assembly polls.
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The ruling CPM trod a brave path when it announced its list of candidates for the Kerala Assembly elections, dropping 33 sitting MLAs, including some powerful ministers and mass leaders. Its gamble of deploying young and new faces paid off in the recent local body elections, but there’s no guarantee that the same strategy can yield results in a state polls where factors at work are vastly different.

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KC(M) Piravom candidate 'expelled' from CPM- The New Indian Express

KC(M) Piravom candidate ‘expelled’ from CPM
Amid protests among the CPM cadre against giving the Kuttiyadi seat to the Kerala Congress (M), controversies over the new ally’s candidate in Piravom has put the LDF in a fix.
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KC(M) candidate for Piravom constituency Dr Sindhumol Jacob posing for a photograph at the party headquarters in Kottayam on Thursday | Vishnu Prathap
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KOTTAYAM: Amid protests among the CPM cadre against giving the Kuttiyadi seat to the Kerala Congress (M), controversies over the new ally’s candidate in Piravom has put the LDF in a fix. On Wednesday evening, the KC (M) announced Dr Sindhumol Jacob, vice president of Uzhavoor block panchayat, as its candidate for Piravom. But her selection comes even as she is holding a CPM membership at the Uzhavoor North branch. The development led to an allegation that Sindhumol’s candidature was decided as per an understanding between the CPM and the KC (M).

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Left front gets head start in election campaigning

He interacted with voters at a meeting organised by the Kettida Nirmana Thozhilali Union area committee.
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By Express News Service
KOCHI: Even as the UDF and the NDA are yet to declare their respective candidates, the LDF has launched its poll campaign a day after announcing Shaji George as the CPM-backed independent candidate for the Ernakulam assembly segment.Shaji on Thursday visited noted writer M K Sanu to seek his blessings. He also met writer K L Mohana Varma, Ernakulam Kara Yogam general secretary P Ramachandran and poet S Ramesan Nair.
He interacted with voters at a meeting organised by the Kettida Nirmana Thozhilali Union area committee. “Voters should use this election to express their dissatisfaction with the Centre, which has been denying financial aid to Kerala,” he said.

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PC Chacko quits, Muraleedharan skulks, Congress poll talks head nowhere

The AICC leadership is learnt to have asked Ramesh Chennithala and Oommen Chandy whether they would take up the challenge to contest from difficult seats.

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In protests & poster war, a 2011 rewind for CPM- The New Indian Express

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poster war and the open resentment over party candidates have been rocking the CPM in the past few days. For the CPM, the open protests bring back memories of 2006, when party members took to the streets for veteran V S Achuthanandan. However, Left allies feel 2011 would be a far better pointer to remind the CPM of what could be in store.
Though the CPI and other allies have remained silent, they feel that the CPM would do well to remember the 2011 example, when the Achuthanandan-led Left government fell short of only a couple of seats to ensure continuity in office. “Had we fielded some capable hands in 2011, the Left would have undoubtedly come back to power. Poor candidate selection could prove to be a major setback for the Left,” said a senior Left leader.

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Communalism personified: Pinarayi takes a jab at Amit Shah

Communalism personified: Pinarayi takes a jab at Amit Shah
Reacting sharply to the Union home minister’s tirade against him in Thiruvanantha-puram, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said Amit Shah is communalism personified.
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KANNUR: Reacting sharply to the Union home minister’s tirade against him in Thiruvanantha-puram, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said Amit Shah is communalism personified. Kick-starting ‘Padayorukkam’, the LDF election campaign, at Pinarayi here on Monday, the CM said Shah has humiliated the state and the Congress has not spoken anything against it.
“His speech was quite unbecoming of his stature as the Home Minister. Though he has reached a big position, from the speech he had made, it seems that the man has not changed much from the person who had led the genocide in Gujarat in 2002,” he said. On Shah’s questions, the CM said he was not the one who was jailed for kidnapping.

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Kerala polls: Anger among CPM cadres over candidate selection, seat sharing

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the CPM enters the campaign mode harbouring hopes of a second straight term in office, anger is boiling over regarding candidate selection and seat sharing.
On a day when the CPM secretariat finalised candidates, the state witnessed open protests in Ponnani and Kuttiyadi in addition to strong resentment within a section of supporters over exclusion of leaders with proven mass appeal.
There have been protests and poster campaigns in Alappuzha against the exclusion of G Sudhakaran and Thomas Isaac. On the other hand, allotting safe seats like Ranni, Kuttiyadi and Changanassery to KC(M) Jose K Mani faction has not gone down well with the cadre.

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Kerala elections 2021: Times Now-C-Voter opinion poll suggests LDF likely to 82 seats

Kerala elections 2021: Times Now-C-Voter opinion poll suggests LDF likely to 82 seats
India
Updated: Monday, March 8, 2021, 20:10 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 08: Times Now-C-Voter Poll Survey has suggested that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) is likely to win 82 of the total 140 seats in the upcoming Assembly Elections in Kerala. According to the survey, the United Democratic Front (UDF) is likely to grab 56 seats, while the BJP could win just one seat.
According to the survey, the LDF can win 78-86 seats. For UDF, the projections are from 52-60 seats, the BJP from 0-2, and Others 0-2.
The LDF's vote share is likely to suffer a 0.6 per cent hit, from 43.5 per cent in 2016 to 42.9 per cent in 2021. The UDF's vote share is likely to decrease from 38.8 per cent in 2016 to 37.6 per cent in 2021.

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For the first time, Congress is displaying unity, says Chandy- The New Indian Express

‘Congress is confident that people will rally behind it and will emerge victorious’

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Three challenges for Kerala parties in upcoming state polls

The political significance of the Assembly polls underway in Kerala cannot be overstated.

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