Kerala Assembly elections 2021 | Key winners and losers
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May 02, 2021 21:40 IST
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan greets party supporters during an election campaign ahead of Kerala Assembly Polls, in Thiruvananthapuram, Friday, March 26, 2021. File
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
The ruling Left Democratic Front, with a lead in 99 of 140 seats, has emerged as a decisive winner of 2021 Assembly elections. Congress-led United Democratic Front, which harboured ambitions of forming the government this round, was sidelined to a mere 41 seats, while BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has lost the one seat they had won in 2016 electi
Harinder Kaur Bindu, whose father Megh Raj Bhagtuana was killed by alleged Babbar Khalsa International militants in 1991, now leads protests against the new farm regime at Tikri as head of the women’s wing of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan).
The Jamhoori Kisan Sabha is one of the main groups at the Singhu protest. Its president Kulwant Singh Sandhu, who was part of the failed talks with the Centre, was shot in the leg and back in an ambush by suspected Khalistan Commando Force members in 1988.
Sonia Mann, a film star in south India and Punjab, has been a regular visitor to the protests and to Tihar jail where several peasants have been imprisoned following the violence during the farmers’ January 26 march in Delhi. Mann’s father Baldev Singh Mann was assassinated by suspected separatists in 1990 while he was travelling to see her for the first time, just 15 days after her birth.
Presidents take oath in 70 grama panchayats
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LDF nominees to head 44 local bodies in Kozhikode district
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LDF nominees to head 44 local bodies in Kozhikode district
The presidents and vice presidents of 70 grama panchayats took the oath of office in Kozhikode district on Wednesday.
At the end of political negotiations and strategic alliance, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) nominees emerged as heads in 44 out of the 70 grama panchayats.
When Communist Party of India (Marxist) nominees took the majority of 42 posts, Kunnamangalam and Cheruvannur panchayat were given to Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) as part of the political understanding within the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Police continue vigil in sensitive areas
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Night patrol intensified in Nadapuram
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Night patrol intensified in Nadapuram
Considering the tense situation in some of the politically sensitive rural areas in Kozhikode, security measures adopted by the local police to tackle post-election violence will be maintained as such for a few more days. Night patrol has been intensified in Nadapuram area, where Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) workers locked horns many times over election results.
Meanwhile, District Police Chief (Kozhikode rural) A. Sreenivas said prohibitory orders would not be extended.
“As a precautionary measure, we have decided to continue vigil in all the sensitive areas,” he told
LDF continues its winning streak in Kozhikode district
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UDF fails to maintain strategy adopted in Lok Sabha polls
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UDF fails to maintain strategy adopted in Lok Sabha polls
Bucking the anti-incumbency trend, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) almost swept the three-tier local body polls in Kozhikode district. The LDF won the Kozhikode Corporation and the District Panchayat, both with two-third majority in style like last time. Left parties, which have been ruling the Kozhikode Corporation for the past 45 years, could counter the campaigns of both the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-led National Democratic Front (NDA) in the district. The Left front also won 10 out of the 12 block panchayats and emerged victorious in 43 out of the 70 grama panchayats. At the same time, it could retain only two mun