The BJP-NDA lodged a complaint against Gandhi alleging he openly canvassed for votes through twitter even while polling was on in the hill constituency.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In line with the change of guard in the Congress legislature party, the party central leadership has decided to revamp all 14 district committees. On Wednesday, Palakkad DCC president V K Sreekandan, MP, resigned from the post owning up the moral responsibility for the failure of the majority of UDF candidates in the recent assembly elections in the district. Alappuzha DCC president M Liju had quit soon after the poll results were announced.
The resignation of Sreekandan followed the online hearing by the Ashok Chavan panel appointed by AICC to study the party’s poll debacle in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal. On Wednesday, former Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala appeared before the five-member panel online. He pointed out that the organisational weakness and lapses of booth-level committees contributed greatly to the failure.
Ex-Journalist Veena George To Replace KK Shailaja As Kerala Health Minister
KK Shailaja, the face of Kerala’s fight against Nipah and Covid-19, was dropped as health minister.
Outlook Web Bureau 19 May 2021, Last Updated at 4:36 pm
For the first time in its history, a woman journalist-turned politician will become a minister in Kerala. Outlook Web Bureau 2021-05-19T16:33:31+05:30 Ex-Journalist Veena George To Replace KK Shailaja As Kerala Health Minister outlookindia.com 2021-05-19T16:36:03+05:30
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CPI(MP) leader and MLA Veena George will most likely be replacing KK Shailaja as the new health minister of Kerala. On May 18, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Pinarayi Vijayan selected his cabinet, but dropped Shailaja, the face of Kerala’s fight against Nipah and Covid-19 during her stint as health minister.
With the dropping of KK Shailaja and induction of the Kerala CM’s son-in-law into the cabinet, the Left has proved that it is no different from the dominant political culture of family raj and dynasty rule.
TV was the most preferred advertising medium during the recent Kerala elections with 67% ad insertion share
BJP s
Kerala elections, according to data from
TAM.
While in 2016, its ad insertion accounted for 21%, this year it only accounted for 1% of the total ad insertions.
United Democratic Front,
Left Democratic Front and National Democratic Alliance were the top 3 advertisers this year. The
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) significantly reduced its ad insertions in TV, Print and Radio during this year’s elections. According to TAM’s data, the political party’s campaigns accounted for 1% of the ad insertions this year. Across all three mediums, the