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Kerala Assembly elections: Opposing fronts make final push to woo voters ahead of pivotal April 9 polls
Open campaigning set to end at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. While LDF banks on governance track record, UDF stresses need to end 10 years of decline, and BJP vows to end LDF-UDF ‘revolving-door politics’ in Kerala
Kerala elections: Win or lose, Congress could ‘transition into BJP’ in Kerala, alleges CPI(M) leader M. Swaraj
Swaraj cites instances of Congress MLAs joining BJP in different States and warns the electorate in Kerala that such a scenario is possible in the State too
Kerala elections: V.D. Satheesan files complaint with Chief Electoral Officer, police chief over ‘forged letter’ on UDF candidate selection
Kerala Opposition Leader urges investigation and action against perpetrators
‘Corruption caused floods’: Congress MLA Kuzhalnadan claims new audio evidence ties LDF govt to 2018 Kuttanad disaster
Mathew Kuzhalnadan alleges LDF govt’s ‘corruption-driven wilful delay’ in opening shutters of Thottappally spillway caused devastating floods in Kerala’s rice bowl. Minister Krishnankutty denies allegations; Pinarayi says ‘desperation of impending defeat (in polls) has prompted Congress to broadcast old lies’
Kerala polls: K.C. Venugopal dares State govt to probe Wayanad funds allegations against Congress
Venugopal says the houses the Congress has promised to families in landslide-hit area will be completed ‘within six months of UDF coming to power’; accuses Pinarayi Vijayan of ‘turning the communist party into a corporate entity’
Kerala elections: Supplyco offers 1 kg of ‘puttu’ powder for ₹1 to incentivise voter turnout, but there’s a catch
Voters will be eligible to purchase 1 kg of Sabari ‘puttu’ powder for ₹1 on the two days following the polls. The offer will be applicable to customers who make purchases worth more than ₹1,000 on non-subsidised items at Supplyco outlets
Pinarayi Vijayan’s political career timeline
As Kerala gears up for the crucial 2026 Assembly elections, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan finds himself at a pivotal crossroads in his political career
Kerala cyber police book social media activist in Kasaragod over alleged riot call
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SC hearing on Sabarimala LIVE: Nine-judge Bench to hear pleas on religious discrimination against women
The Bench has said it would also examine the "scope and extent of judicial review," concerning a religious practice as referred under Article 25 of the Constitution
Sabarimala review: A strict definition of ‘denomination’, ‘essential religious practices’ will compress plural and diverse Hinduism, Centre tells SC
Eight years ago, a majority judgment of September 2018 had rejected ‘Ayyappans’ as a religious denomination and dismissed prohibition on women aged between 10 and 50 years from entering the Sabarimala temple as an essential religious practice
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: K.K. Rema eyes a second term in Vadakara as LDF confident of a comeback
The incumbent MLA is contesting with UDF support again and her LDF rival is veteran socialist leader M.K. Bhaskaran. The NDA nominee is K. Dileep of the BJP
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Health sector achievements and frailties on focus
While the Left hails the achievements of the health sector over the past decade as unprecedented, high out of pocket expenditure, lack of adequate human resources despite improvements in infrastructure, and issues with Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhati implementation contest the claim
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Comeback, continuity or change? Poonjar faces a three-way test
P.C. George, the seven-time MLA now representing the NDA, is hopeful of putting behind him the backlash he got from the Muslim community in 2021; incumbent MLA Sebastian Kulathungal of the LDF is pitching stability and steady governance; UDF’s M.J. Sebastian is betting big on anti-incumbency
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: From rallies to reels: high-stakes digital face-off for polls
Podcasts seem to be the most sought out tool for campaigning this time. From bigwigs like Pinarayi Vijayan to V.D. Satheesan, many candidates have given podcast interviews ahead of the polls, most of which have earned lakhs of views
Kerala polls: Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan slams LDF government’s progress report
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Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Decoding the electoral maze in Malabar
The 73 segments in north Kerala spread across Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad, and Thrissur districts constitute a political mosaic where every constituency tells a different electoral story
From myths to language: examining the renaming of Kerala
The Union Government’s recent approval of the proposal to rename Kerala as Keralam prompts a re-examination of the term’s historicity, including its founding legend, the context of the United Kerala Movement, and arguments for the linguistic purity of ‘Keralam’
Kerala Assembly polls 2026: Open campaigning to end at 6 p.m. today
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Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: LDF’s bid to retain supremacy in Kozhikode, UDF hopeful of reviving its fortunes
The Congress does not have an MLA in the district for over two decades. The LDF believes it has an edge in at least eight of the 13 constituencies
