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‘Vijayan is running a chief ministerial form of government … His troubles show he is missing political input from the party’ December 13, 2020, 7:09 PM IST
The term of Kerala’s LDF government ends next year.
NS Madhavan, a former bureaucrat, creative writer and political analyst, spoke to
Viju B on the political landscape in the state and provided an insight into the working style of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan:
Do you think the LDF government is on the backfoot following a series of scams that have undermined its credibility?
Undoubtedly they have. And the reasons for that are here to be seen. The CPM led governments used to function under two centres of power, the government and the AKG Centre, the state CPM headquarters. Under Pinarayi Vijayan, the party and the government coalesced into one. He is unfettered. While the extra-constitutional appendage of the party apparatus had fallen off, Vijayan also lost