While CPI and Congress are partners in the INDIA bloc, the two parties are fierce contenders in Kerala with both parties pitting their strongest candidates against each other.
Shashi Tharoor should get the Oomen Chandy faction’s backing, but K.C. Venugopal, V.D. Satheesan and Ramesh Chennithala can gang up to deny him the opportunity.
Three-time MP Tharoor continues to tour Kerala, much to chagrin of party’s state unit. 'We want him back, please tell him to maintain courtesies,' says KPCC chief K. Sudhakaran.
Following example of Mathur gram panchayat, which uses Malayalam terms like 'chetta' (brother) & 'chechi' (sister), state party chief K Sudhakaran says all panchayats headed by party will do the same.
Kerala district unit presidents’ list has triggered a row, with senior leaders Oommen Chandy & Ramesh Chennithala accusing the leadership of not consulting them.
In an interview, Kerala Congress (M) chief Jose K. Mani said the Syro-Malabar church was right in raising the issue of 'love-jihad' and that it should be addressed.
Veteran leader P.C. Chacko quit Congress alleging 'groupism' in Kerala unit — Congress (I) and Congress (A) are an indisputable part of state politics, where both vie for posts and election tickets.
Chacko alleged that candidates for Kerala assembly polls, due on 6 April, were being determined undemocratically by 2 groups, led by Oommen Chandy & Ramesh Chennithala respectively.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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