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Senior Cong leader Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan elected Kerala Assembly Speaker

Senior Cong leader Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan elected Kerala Assembly Speaker

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Senior Congress leader Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was on Friday elected as the Speaker of the 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly. Radhakrishnan secured 101 votes in the election held in the Assembly, comfortably defeating candidates fielded by the opposition parties. With the completion of the election process, Pro Tem Speaker G Sudhakaran stepped down from the temporary role he had been performing since the formation of the new Assembly. Congress-led UDF secures easy victory in Speaker election The Congress-led United Democratic Front enjoys a majority of 102 members in the 140-member Assembly, making Radhakrishnan’s victory largely expected. The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front fielded A C Moideen for the Speaker’s post, while the Bharatiya Janata Party nominated B B Gopakumar. Moideen secured 35 votes, while Gopakumar received three votes, reflecting the strength of the LDF and BJP in the House. Sudhakaran, who was serving as Pro Tem Speaker, did not cast his vote. Leaders congratulate newly elected Speaker After the results were announced, MLAs across party lines congratulated Radhakrishnan inside the Assembly. Chief Minister V D Satheesan and Leader …

Why Kerala Left Contracted Inward Toward One Leader

Why Kerala Left Contracted Inward Toward One Leader

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Hamlet did not ask to be remembered. He asked to be understood — and knew, in his final breath, that the two are never the same. There is something of that sorrow in the twilight of Pinarayi Vijayan. A leader who built roads through mountains and broadband amidst poverty. Who governed with the cold precision of someone who had never once confused sentiment with strategy. And yet — power, when it finally leaves, does not ask permission. It simply goes. He is, in the grand Shakespearean tradition, both architect and ruin — the strong hand that steadied the ship, and the fist that, gripped too long, forgot how to open. Kerala moves on. The story stays. And like Horatio on that blood-soaked Danish stage, it falls to the rest of us — breathless, uncertain, grieving a little — to tell it. What remains is not the record he wrote, but the story others will now tell. Vijayan’s journey started in 1964, at the bottom of a ladder he would spend the next five decades climbing …

Can Pinarayi Vijayan sail through or will the ‘alternating power’ curse make a comeback in Kerala?| India News

Can Pinarayi Vijayan sail through or will the ‘alternating power’ curse make a comeback in Kerala?| India News

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For years, a trend of political power largely alternating between two coalitions persisted in Kerala. It was either the Left Democratic Front (LDF) led by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s CPI(M) or the United Democratic Front (UDF) led by Congress that people voted to power alternatively every five years.This trend was broken by Vijayan-led LDF, which retained power, winning 99 of the 140 seats in 2021, the first time in four decades that a coalition won Assembly elections in Kerala for the second consecutive time. Even though Pinarayi Vijayan broke the ‘alternating power’ curse in 2021, repeating the same feat and retaining power for the third consecutive time would be an even bigger challenge (PTI) A similar challenge faces the LDF this time as well, with the UDF led by Congress yet again being its only key opponent, making the contest two-cornered. Meanwhile, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is hoping to make some inroads into the state. It remains to be seen if Pinarayi Vijayan or Kerala’s alternating power curse will make a comeback in …

‘Against Islamic norms’: Kerala cleric objects to popular fitness programme | Thiruvananthapuram News

‘Against Islamic norms’: Kerala cleric objects to popular fitness programme | Thiruvananthapuram News

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Kerala’s prominent cleric Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar, who is known for pro-CPI(M) political line, Monday raised objections to a popular physical fitness programme — Multi-Exercise Combination (MEC-7) — saying it is “against Islamic norms”. At a function in Malappuram, Musliyar said: “Under the guise of exercise, a collective has come across villages and cities… There is intermingling of men and women in the exercise. Women are participating in the exercise and exposing their body. The programme has even abolished the thought that men and women seeing one another is haram (forbidden)… Those who turn against it (MEC-7) are being criticised as people with no exposure.’’ Kanthapuram, head of a powerful Sunni segment — AP Group — said in the past there were norms for women with regard to mingling with men. “This fitness programme has taken away that veil and they (women) think there’s nothing wrong in men and women coming together. This is causing massive disaster….’’ The MEC-7 fitness programme ran into a controversy last month when the CPI(M) raised an alarm saying …

Kerala | Pinarayi faces the heat

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As the relentless monsoon rains lash Kerala’s lush landscape, a different kind of storm is brewing in the state’s political corridors. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government finds itself caught in a deluge of contro­versy, with allegations as torrential as the downpour outside. It all began on August 30 with a press conference called by P.V. Anvar, a two-term Independent legislator from Nilambur in Malappuram district. Not only did the CPI(M)-backed legislator unleash a flood of accusations against a senior police officer with close ties to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), he also charged CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s political secretary P. Sasi, who handles the home department on his behalf, with shielding corrupt cops. Over the next few days, Anvar kept firing fresh salvos, even releasing allegedly incriminating recorded phone conversations as evidence against additional director general of police (ADGP) M.R. Ajith Kumar and his purported aide, superintendent of police (SP) Sujith Das. Source link

Kerala News | Thiruvananthapuram Biggest Test Ahead Of Lok Sabha Election 2024 | N18V | News18

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Kerala News | Thiruvananthapuram Biggest Test Ahead Of Lok Sabha Election 2024 | N18V | News18While the incumbent, Shashi Tharoor of the Congress, is eyeing a fourth win on the trot, the CPI’s Pannian Raveendran will be hoping to win the seat for the LDF for the first time since 2005. The NDA, which came second in the 2014 and 2019 polls, is striving to go one better by fielding Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Caste equations and contentions issues such as the Vizhinjam port works will play a crucial role in the election outcomekeralalatestnews Source link

Kerala veterinary student death illustrates free rein given to cadres of CPI(M): Prashant Bhushan

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Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan. File | Photo Credit: PTI Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan on March 9 alleged that the death of J. Sidharth, a second-year student of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Pookode in Wayanad, illustrated the kind of ‘gundagiri’ (hooliganism) involving the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Students Federation of India (SFI) in Kerala. “It is unfortunate that the police and the agencies do not act with a kind of alacrity with which they have to act. This is unfortunately a problem that I am witnessing in the State. The CPI(M) and its cadres have clearly been violating the rules of law and the same thing we are seeing in the centre, where lynch mobs are given free rein to do whatever they want to do. It is now being seen in Kerala with regard to the cadres of the CPI(M) and the SFI in the manner in which they treat other people. This must be …