Kerala Elections

In view of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, Kerala Congress leaders on Thursday met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi to decide the names of the candidates for the Rajya Sabha seats.

Amid opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) sloganeering against him, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Friday delivered the customary address to the Assembly with the policy document outlining the Left government's administrative achievements.

Yogi Adityanath's comment on "Uttar Pradesh turning into Kerala or Bengal" did not go unchallenged as Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan threw shade at his Uttar Pradesh counterpart in a tweet.

Uttar Pradesh can become Kashmir, Kerala or Bengal if voters "make a mistake", Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said hours before the first round of elections in the state, urging people to vote for the BJP.

This comes months after he had contested in Kerala's assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.

The BJP spent Rs 252 crore in the assembly elections held in Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala earlier this year with almost 60 per cent used for campaigning in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.

Bypoll to one Rajya Sabha seat each from Kerala and West Bengal will be held on November 29, the Election Commission said on Sunday.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K. Surendran appeared before the Kasargod district crime branch on Thursday, after he was summoned for questioning in the Manjeswaram election bribery case.

The Kerala police have summoned state BJP chief K Surendran next week for questioning in a case linked to the theft of alleged hawala money ahead of the April 6 assembly election, sources have said.

Judicial First Class Magistrate Sulthan Bathery on Wednesday granted permission to register FIR against Kerala BJP chief K Surendran on the allegations that he had given people money to contest the elections.

An FIR (first information report) has been filed against K Surendran - the BJP's Kerala chief for allegedly bribing a rival candidate - K Sundara - into withdrawing his nomination ahead of the April 6 Assembly election

Citing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Election Commission Friday decided to defer a proposed Rajya Sabha bypoll for a seat from Kerala.

After the humiliating defeat of the Congress in the last month's elections in Kerala, the party's central leadership has a tough decision. And it is running out of time.

Pinarayi Vijayan steered the Left ship to safe waters in the 2021 Kerala Assembly Elections with a thumpingwin and rewrote political history of voters swinging between the Congress and Communists once in 5 years in the state

Pinarayi Vijayan, who guided the CPM-led Left Democratic Front to a historic second successive term in the April-May election - was on Thursday afternoon sworn in as Kerala Chief Minister, with his all-new 20-member cabinet

In view of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, Kerala Congress leaders on Thursday met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi to decide the names of the candidates for the Rajya Sabha seats.

Amid opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) sloganeering against him, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Friday delivered the customary address to the Assembly with the policy document outlining the Left government's administrative achievements.

Yogi Adityanath's comment on "Uttar Pradesh turning into Kerala or Bengal" did not go unchallenged as Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan threw shade at his Uttar Pradesh counterpart in a tweet.

Uttar Pradesh can become Kashmir, Kerala or Bengal if voters "make a mistake", Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said hours before the first round of elections in the state, urging people to vote for the BJP.

This comes months after he had contested in Kerala's assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.

The BJP spent Rs 252 crore in the assembly elections held in Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala earlier this year with almost 60 per cent used for campaigning in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.

Bypoll to one Rajya Sabha seat each from Kerala and West Bengal will be held on November 29, the Election Commission said on Sunday.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K. Surendran appeared before the Kasargod district crime branch on Thursday, after he was summoned for questioning in the Manjeswaram election bribery case.

The Kerala police have summoned state BJP chief K Surendran next week for questioning in a case linked to the theft of alleged hawala money ahead of the April 6 assembly election, sources have said.

Judicial First Class Magistrate Sulthan Bathery on Wednesday granted permission to register FIR against Kerala BJP chief K Surendran on the allegations that he had given people money to contest the elections.

An FIR (first information report) has been filed against K Surendran - the BJP's Kerala chief for allegedly bribing a rival candidate - K Sundara - into withdrawing his nomination ahead of the April 6 Assembly election

Citing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Election Commission Friday decided to defer a proposed Rajya Sabha bypoll for a seat from Kerala.

After the humiliating defeat of the Congress in the last month's elections in Kerala, the party's central leadership has a tough decision. And it is running out of time.

Pinarayi Vijayan steered the Left ship to safe waters in the 2021 Kerala Assembly Elections with a thumpingwin and rewrote political history of voters swinging between the Congress and Communists once in 5 years in the state

Pinarayi Vijayan, who guided the CPM-led Left Democratic Front to a historic second successive term in the April-May election - was on Thursday afternoon sworn in as Kerala Chief Minister, with his all-new 20-member cabinet