65% of sitting MLAs in Kerala have criminal cases against them
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March 11, 2021 00:31 IST
Analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms and Kerala Election Watch shows cases filed against 21% of legislators come under ‘serious’ categories
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Analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms and Kerala Election Watch shows cases filed against 21% of legislators come under ‘serious’ categories
Sixty-five percent of the sitting MLAs in the present State Assembly have criminal cases against them, according to an assessment by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Kerala Election Watch.
Civil society organisations analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 132 elected members out 140 that were submitted prior to the 2016 elections and found that 86 were facing criminal cases, while 21% MLAs had declared ‘serious’ criminal cases against them.
PC Chacko resigns from Congress, talks about his love for Left
March 10, 2021
‘Congress high command functions as per the diktats of Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala’
Former Congress General Secretary and senior leader from Kerala PC Chacko resigned from the Congress here on Wednesday. Announcing the decision, he said the Congress high command functions as per the diktats of Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala.
He said the Congress in Kerala is a coordination committee of two groups headed by Chandy and Chennithala. The party has stopped functioning democratically, he added.
The BJP is not going to make any gains in Kerala, Chacko said.
In Azhikode, there’s always room for surprise
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Delimitation changed profile of constituency, which used to be Left bastion
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Delimitation changed profile of constituency, which used to be Left bastion Azhikode used to be a stronghold of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] till the last delimitation changed its electoral profile. The party still has a strong base in the constituency. But, Azhikode has a history of throwing up surprises.
With the CPI(M) setting its eyes on recapturing the Azhikode seat from the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a close battle is expected in the upcoming Assembly election. The IUML’s K.M. Shaji won the seat from the CPI(M) in 2011 by a margin of 493 votes and increased his margin to 2,287 in 2016. After his expulsion from the CPI(M), M.V. Raghavan, who had contested as an Independent candidate with the support of the United Democratic Front (UDF), won the seat in 1987, breaking the constituency’s
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The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday (March 7) released its campaign slogan Puthiya Keralam Modikoppam (New Kerala with Modi).
The slogan was presented by Union Home minister Amit Shah in the presence of Union Ministers Prahlad Joshi, V Muraleedharan.
Thiruvananthapuram: As the fight over the upcoming state assembly elections heats up, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday (March 7) released its campaign slogan Puthiya Keralam Modikoppam (New Kerala with Modi).
The slogan was presented by Union Home minister Amit Shah in the presence of Union Ministers Prahlad Joshi, V Muraleedharan, former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan, E Sreedharan, senior BJP leaders in state and other NDA leaders, during a valedictory function of BJP’s Kerala Vijay Yatra.
Kerala People’s Party chief and actor Devan, along with actor Radha and former bureaucrat KV Balakrishnan joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (March 7).