Here s Why Pinarayi Vijayan Can t Be Called a Modi in a Mundu
Going by classical definitions, the chief minister is far from being an autocrat. What saves him is the Left s deeply embedded corrective mechanism.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan at an election rally. Photo: Twitter/@CPIMKerala
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The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front is set to retain power in Kerala, with the trends projecting it as leading or having won at least 94 of the 140 assembly seats.
The LDF victory will curb a four decade-old trend of the state electing communist and Congress-headed governments alternatively.
Two years ago, soon after the Left Front suffered a stunning defeat in the 2019 parliamentary elections, prominent Malayalam daily
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Mithun, The Cobra Who Could Sting Mamata Hard Mithun, The Cobra Who Could Sting Mamata Hard
Updated: March 08, 2021 4:54 pm IST
I moved to a new school when I was 10. My neighbour, who knew me already, introduced me to others in the school bus as Mithun Chakraborty s cousin. This spread like, as I am told, wildfires do, and caused me much shame. Mithun, for all his popularity, was a Disco Dancer. I was a junior
bhadralok. But the memory of our fictitious kinship came to my aid 25 years later.
That was at a London hotel where I was holidaying with wife and 9-month-old. The hotel had an annoying practice of levying an extra five-pound tray charge every time one ordered room service. On our third day, the Polish gent who was taking my order noticed my surname. Any relation of Mithun Chakraborty? he asked. He is my cousin, I replied without batting an eyelid. I am a big fan, Sir, the man said. From now, there ll be no tray charge for you.
Modi Magic Will Not Work This Time in Assam : AJP s Jagadish Bhuyan
The former BJP leader, who quit the party after the CAA was passed by parliament, says the prime minister and his government have failed to deliver on the promises made to the Assamese people.
Jagadish Bhuyan. Photo: Twitter/@jbhuyan65
Politics16/Feb/2021
New Delhi: The vociferous protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Assam have led to the birth of three regional parties in the poll-bound state.
Of these, the Anchalik Gana Morcha has entered into an alliance with the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to contest the assembly polls, scheduled for this April-May. The two others â the Raijor Dal (RD) and Asam Jatiyo Parishad (AJP) â have joined hands to fight the polls as a combined anti-CAA forum against the ruling BJP.