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The Big Story: Plot hole
Did the Indian government fail to act in time to contain the massive second wave of Covid-19 because the top leaders of the ruling party were more focused on an election campaign in West Bengal – in which it would eventually be handed an enormous defeat?
Narrative is important to Narendra Modi. Indeed, it is all encompassing. For the Indian prime minister, no public appearance is a one-off. No speech is routine. A banal flyover inauguration is an opportunity to attack the Opposition for its failures in the past. A visit by a foreign leader is portrayed as recognition of India’s growing stature, powered single-handedly by the prime minister. The end of an election campaign is a chance to be photographed meditating in
The 2021 Kerala State Election Will Be Historic. Hereâs Why.
Odds from voter turnout data this time favour the Left Democratic Front breaking the stateâs pattern of voting out incumbents.
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Soar above the dense thicket of Keralaâs party politics, where parties have forked, branched, rebranched, and tangled here and there. Soar high to break free from the din below â of claims that a vacillating ethnic leader or another, a shifting ally, or a superannuated technocrat is going to change the stateâs electoral outcomes. From that high vantage, two things â two certainties of Kerala politics â stand out: first, power alternates between the Communist-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) every election. Second, voter turnouts far higher than the Leftâs vote base in the constituencies undo the LDF.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (File Photo: IANS) | IANS
West Bengal may have commanded most of the attention and headlines with its eight-phase elections that come with national implications. But Kerala, which votes in just one phase on April 6, is set for assembly polls that could be momentous in its own way, without fitting into a simple Bharatiya Janata Party vs everyone else pan-India narrative.
The southern state has seen power alternate between two fronts every five years for the last four decades. Almost like clockwork, and seemingly irrespective of how successful each government was, voters threw out the incumbents and brought in the Opposition in every electoral cycle since 1983.
Kerala polls: Chacko joins NCP, pitches for Pawar s leadership to raise Opposition unity
On March 10, he announced his decision to quit Congress over the alleged undemocratic way of selecting candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Kerala which is scheduled for April 6.
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NEW DELHI: Former Kerala Congress leader PC Chacko joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday.
“I am formally joining NCP today,” he said. The 74-year-old is a former Member of Parliament from Kerala’s Thrissur constituency.
He headed the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G Spectrum during the UPA government (2009-2014).
Former Kerala Congress leader PC Chacko will joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party today. After having been a part of it for decades, he quit his former organisation on March 10 following differences over seat allocation.