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Will Kerala s gold smuggling case be Pinarayi Vijayan s undoing? Jeemon Jacob © Provided by India Today Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan could be close to a historic achievement in the southern state a second consecutive term. No government which has completed a full term has ever returned to power in the 64-year history of the state. In the past few decades, it has been a revolving door between the CPI(M)-led LDF and the Congress-led UDF. The LDF believed it was close to getting a second term in 1991, but the Congress-led UDF swept into power in the elections. The UDF benefited in some measure by a sympathy wave that followed Rajiv Gandhi s assassination in May that year and also a fatal miscalculation by the sitting LDF chief minister E.K. Nayanar. Enthused by the Left s strong showing in the local body polls, Nayanar dissolved the assembly a year before its term expired. Vijayan, a cautious party apparatchik, would not fall for such hubris. He has, in

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