Kerala Panchayat Polls

Three women activists of the ruling CPI(M), including a panchayat member, have been booked on charges of bogus voting in Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency during the April 23 polls, police said Thursday.

Early leads for Kerala elections show the Left front ahead, with the incumbent Congress coalition trailing. Kerala has a total of 140 seats. The panchayat elections recently held gave the Left 57% of the seats, with 42% for the Congress-led UDF. The BJP and others got the balance one percent.

The ruling Congress and the Opposition Left's alliances are only four seats apart in the current Kerala assembly, and a tiny 0.25 per cent swing in votes in Monday's election can reverse the position.

A Kerala-based corporate group Anna Kitex will literally govern the entire panchayat for the first time after winning the elections. As a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Kitex Group launched a social platform Twenty20 and fielded 19 independent candidates, for all the wards.

A fierce three-cornered contest is on the cards in Manjeswaram, northern-most constituency of Kerala, where a neck-to-neck fight between three candidates of UDF, LDF and BJP is expected for the April 13 assembly polls.

LDF has fielded sitting MLA C H Kunhambu and UDF P B Abdul Razak, former President of Kasargod District Panchayat and BJP K Su...

The recently concluded local body polls in Kerala threw up a surprise result. Anas Vazhakulam, an accused in the attack on lecturer T J Joseph, who's in jail, won a panchayat seat with a huge margin, that too on the ticket of a party that made its electoral debut.Anas is accused of giving shelter to those who chopped off the hand of lecturer T J Jo...

Three women activists of the ruling CPI(M), including a panchayat member, have been booked on charges of bogus voting in Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency during the April 23 polls, police said Thursday.

Early leads for Kerala elections show the Left front ahead, with the incumbent Congress coalition trailing. Kerala has a total of 140 seats. The panchayat elections recently held gave the Left 57% of the seats, with 42% for the Congress-led UDF. The BJP and others got the balance one percent.

The ruling Congress and the Opposition Left's alliances are only four seats apart in the current Kerala assembly, and a tiny 0.25 per cent swing in votes in Monday's election can reverse the position.

A Kerala-based corporate group Anna Kitex will literally govern the entire panchayat for the first time after winning the elections. As a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Kitex Group launched a social platform Twenty20 and fielded 19 independent candidates, for all the wards.

A fierce three-cornered contest is on the cards in Manjeswaram, northern-most constituency of Kerala, where a neck-to-neck fight between three candidates of UDF, LDF and BJP is expected for the April 13 assembly polls.

LDF has fielded sitting MLA C H Kunhambu and UDF P B Abdul Razak, former President of Kasargod District Panchayat and BJP K Su...

The recently concluded local body polls in Kerala threw up a surprise result. Anas Vazhakulam, an accused in the attack on lecturer T J Joseph, who's in jail, won a panchayat seat with a huge margin, that too on the ticket of a party that made its electoral debut.Anas is accused of giving shelter to those who chopped off the hand of lecturer T J Jo...