Tharoor spoke on the delay in naming the next chief minister, Kerala’s fiscal crisis, and what the mandate means for the INDIA bloc. Edited excerpts of an interview:
AS THE early trends indicated the Congress-led UDF would emerge victorious in the Kerala Assembly polls, the party announced a press conference at its Akbar Road office at 5 pm, to be addressed by Congress’s communication department head Jairam Ramesh.
The BJP’s third seat came from the Chathannoor constituency in nearby Kollam district, where B B Gopakumar’s consistent work at the grassroots level paid rich dividends to the party. Gopakumar had lost the elections at the constituency in 2016 and 2021.
Ranjani Prabhakaran said there are certain issues mainly concerning the youth in the state that need to be addressed on priority basis by the new government.
Key faces who will face the electoral test include CM Vijayan, Congress state president Sunny Joseph; LoP Satheesan; former Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala; BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Union Minister George Kurian
“If Ayyappan’s gold is stolen, will the government treasury be spared? So even Ayyappan would opt for a change in government,” says the Puthupally MLA, on the alleged Sabarimala shrine gold theft case
Amid CPI(M) MLA M B Rajesh vs Congress ex-MLA V T Balram tussle, many voters don't deny development, but feel the “real issues of unemployment, inflation and farmers’ distress remain unaddressed”
Ex-state BJP chief K Surendran came close to winning Manjeshwar in 2016 and 2021 polls, with the seat being the only one this time where BJP and IUML are caught in a direct fight
The Indian Express visits Ambalapuzha in Alappuzha district to witness how the contest between CPM MLA H Salam and his former party colleague G Sudhakaran, now backed by UDF, is unfolding.
Key Congress front-runner in CM race, Satheesan pitches for change, rakes up Sabarimala gold theft case, claims UDF will "create a new Kerala where our children will be safe and our youths will get jobs”
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