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The outcome of the local self-govt elections was not as expected for the LDF and the reasons for this will be examined in detail. Necessary corrections will be made moving forward, said chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.Although a significant victory was anticipated across the state, such progress was not achieved, he said in a statement. "The fact that the NDA gained an advantage in the capital city and the influence of communalism in the election campaign are concerning to those who believe in s ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 16 (PTI) Kerala Congress (Mani), a key partner of the ruling LDF, on Wednesday firmly denied any possibility of returning to the Congress-led UDF in the wake of the recent civic polls results. Addressing reporters here, KC (M) Chairman Jose K Mani rejected speculations about a potential move following the recent local body elections. "We are with the LDF. We stand firm with them," Mani said after attending an LDF meeting here. Kerala Congress (M), once an ally of the U ...Read More >
Aneesh George, 44, a BLO in Payyannur, Kannur, was found hanging at his house on Sunday. Thiruvananthapuram: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Kerala was affected across the state on Monday as booth-level officers (BLOs) boycotted work following the suicide of an officer allegedly due to work strain. Aneesh George, 44, a BLO in Payyannur, Kannur, was found hanging at his house on Sunday. Family members and residents alleged that he took the extreme step because of work-related ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Booth-level officers across Kerala staged protests on Monday in a day-long agitation over the death of Ajeesh George, a BLO from Kannur district. Aneesh reportedly took his own life due to the intense work pressure of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with unions claiming he was pushed to the edge by excessive workload and pressure from senior officers. The Joint Action Committee of State Employees and Teachers, along with Teachers Service Organisations, called for a on ...Read More >
Kerala SIR: The work of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was widely affected on Monday due to state-wide protest by Booth Level Officers (BLOs) after a BLO worker allegedly died by suicide because of the work pressure. As per the information provided by the police, a school employee, who was working as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) as part of the upcoming local body elections, was found hanging in his house in Kannur district, north Kerala district, on Sunday. 44-year-old Aneesh George was appoi ...Read More >
Sabarimala temple's former administrative officer B Murari Babu has been taken into custody by the Special Investigation Team probing missing gold. Babu, suspended by the Travancore Devaswom Board, is accused in cases involving the disappearance of gold from temple idols and door frames. He allegedly forwarded proposals for electroplating, claiming the gold-clad plates were copper. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the missing gold from the Sabarimala temple has taken former administ ...Read More >
Senior Congress leader KC Venugopal has alleged that not only the PM SHRI scheme but every new incident in Kerala is part of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Communist Party of India (Marxist) secret understanding. Speaking at a press conference here, Venugopal accused the left government of cooperating with the BJP on multiple fronts while pretending to oppose it publicly. Venugopal clarified that the Congress was not implementing the PM SHRI scheme. "It's wrong to say Congress is implementing ...Read More >
Sandeep Warrier is general secretary; Palode Ravi gets vice-president post After years of delay, the Congress on Thursday inched closer to wrapping up its organisational reshuffle in Kerala by expanding its political affairs committee (PAC) besides appointing 13 vice-presidents and 58 general secretaries. Sources in the party said the list of secretaries would also be announced in a week or so. Lok Sabha MPs Rajmohan Unnithan, V.K. Sreekandan, and Dean Kuriakose and Pandalam Sudhakaran, C.P. ...Read More >
O J Janeesh has been appointed as the new state president of the Kerala Youth Congress following Rahul Mamkootathil's resignation over sexual abuse allegations. Binu Chulliyil is the new working president, while Abin Varkey and KM Abhijith are national secretaries. Resentment brews within Congress factions over the appointments, with a complaint planned for the high command. O J Janeesh has been appointed as the new state president of the Youth Congress, Kerala, a post that fell vacant followin ...Read More >
Senior CPI(M) leader accuses Cong. activists of assaulting Perambra panchayat president without any provocation The Left Democratic Front (LDF) on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) took out a rally and held a public meeting in Perambra town to explain its stand on the recent "police action" on Shafi Parambil, Vadakara MP, after which he suffered nasal injuries and admitted to a hospital. Addressing the meeting, LDF convener and local MLA T.P. Ramakrishnan alleged that efforts were being made to fra ...Read More >
ALAPPUZHA: Responding to Minister Saji Cherian's remark that senior leader G Sudhakaran should align with the party, the latter hit out at the minister saying that Cherian does not have the 'maturity or the qualification' to advise him and warned that he "should be careful while speaking." Sudhakaran's outbursts came in the wake of increased cyber attacks against him allegedly by CPM cyber warriors. Sudhakaran also accused Saji Cherian of being part of a move to file complaints against him with ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 9 (PTI) A CPI(M) MLA made distasteful remarks about differently-abled people in the Assembly on Thursday, drawing a sharp reaction from the Opposition Congress-led UDF. MLA P P Chitharanjan made the remarks while Opposition MLAs were protesting in the Assembly over the Sabarimala gold row. Mocking the UDF members, the Alappuzha MLA said they were in the condition of a man without both hands who struggles when an ant climbs on him. The remark came a day after Chief Mini ...Read More >
The police on Monday registered a case against BJP leader Printu Mahadevan for his alleged remark during a television debate that bullets would be fired at the Opposition Leader in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, officials said. IMAGE: Printu Mahadevan. Photograph: Courtesy, www.facebook.com/printu.abvp The case was filed by the Peramangalam police based on a complaint from Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) secretary Sreekumar C C. Mahadevan, a former ABVP leader, made the remarks while discus ...Read More >
Led by opposition leader V D Satheeshan, the UDF members disrupted the house proceedings after Speaker A N Shamsheer denied permission for an adjournment motion regarding the government's alleged refusal to arrest BJP leader Printu Mahadevan. Earlier, PCC president and Peravoor MLA Sunny Joseph had submitted a notice for an adjournment motion to discuss the Rahul Gandhi issue, but the Speaker rejected it, deeming the matter neither important nor urgent enough. He suggested that Sunny Joseph cou ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 30 (PTI) The Kerala assembly was adjourned for the day on Tuesday following a vociferous protest by opposition members over the Speaker's refusal to allow a discussion on the alleged death threat remark made by a BJP leader against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The Congress-led UDF moved an adjournment motion demanding discussion on the matter, halting other business in the House. The protest came a day after police registered a case against BJP leader Printu Mahadevan ...Read More >
Thrissur, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours after the Congress-led UDF slammed the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led government on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday for not taking appropriate steps against a BJP worker who allegedly issued a death threat to Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the Kerala Police got going and began a search for the man who had made the threatening remarks. Kerala Police launched a search for BJP worker Pintu Mahadevan who according to ...Read More >
Thrissur, September 30: Hours after the Congress-led UDF slammed the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led government on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday for not taking appropriate steps against a BJP worker who allegedly issued a death threat to Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the Kerala Police got going and began a search for the man who had made the threatening remarks. Kerala Police launched a search for BJP worker Pintu Mahadevan who according to the Congre ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], September 30 (ANI): The Kerala cabinet on Tuesday approved the formulation of an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy aimed at promoting sustainable investments in the state, according to a statement from the Chief Minister's Office. The policy aims to promote environmentally friendly industries that are low in pollution and compatible with local ecosystems. According to the government, ESG has emerged as a central factor in global investment ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a long interval, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor attended a Congress party function on Monday. He participated in the concluding ceremony of the Mahila Sahas Yatra organsied by the Mahila Congress against the Left government in the state, in front of the secretariat. Following his remarks in support of the BJP-led government on a host of issues like foreign policy and national security, the Congress state unit has not been inviting him to official functions. It is ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 28 (PTI) Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Chief Sunny Joseph on Sunday said the stampede tragedy in the political rally organised by TVK chief Vijay in Karur is a lesson to both people and politicians. As many as 40 people including women and children had been killed in the fatal rally organised by the actor-turned-politician in Karur in neighbouring Tamil Nadu on Saturday night. When reporters asked about the shocking incident, Joseph said it was an incident wh ...Read More >
KALPETTA: In a major political development in the Congress party in Wayanad, DCC president N D Appachan tendered his resignation on Thursday, a move that comes just two days after MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra concluded her week-long visit to the constituency. While AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi was criticised for keeping silent on the questions regarding the turmoil in the party's Wayanad unit, and highlighting her meeting with notable persons from the socio-cultural fields and posting the ...Read More >
Family members of Vijayan had earlier threatened to go on hunger strike if the loan liability was not cleared, claiming that he had incurred them to help the party. It was alleged that even the land documents of their house had been pledged to the bank The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has reportedly cleared the loan liability of around ₹60 lakh owed by former Wayanad District Congress Committee (DCC) treasurer N.M. Vijayan in an urban cooperative bank at Sulthan Bathery, more than ...Read More >
Palakkad (Kerala) [India], September 24 (ANI): Suspended Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, who is facing accusations of sexual misconduct, visited his constituency in Palakkad in Kerala on Wednesday. He had been out of Palakkad after the allegations were raised against him, leading his party to suspend him from its primary membership. His MLA office was opened today, and a large police force was deployed in front of it. Mamkootathil visited the family of a Congress worker, who had died recently, ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: In a move that surprised many Congress leaders and perhaps defied the strong diktats of opposition leader V D Satheesan, Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil attended the first day of the assembly session on Monday. There are reports that Mamkootathil attended the House with support from a few leaders within the party.Mamkootathil's entry to the assembly was a personal setback to Satheesan. This was evident when Satheesan chose not to respond to the media. Later, even during KPCC ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Monday criticised the Election Commission's plan to implement the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, calling it "impractical" as local body elections are approaching. At a meeting chaired by KPCC president Sunny Joseph and attended by DCC presidents and senior functionaries, the party said revising the voter list alongside election preparations would create confusion and hardship. The date for the Local Self-G ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 15 (PTI) The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Monday criticised the Election Commission's move to implement the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and said it is currently "impractical" in Kerala as local body polls are round the corner. The EC's attempt to revise the voter list amid the busy arrangements for Local Self Government Department (LSGD) elections would pave the way for a major crisis, a KPCC meeting opined. The date for the LSGD election is yet to b ...Read More >
Opposition leader, KSU State president deem the act as police vengeance; court questions the police A major controversy erupted after police in Wadakkanchery produced three Kerala Students Union (KSU) leaders in court on Friday with their heads wrapped in black cloth and their hands chained, drawing strong criticism from the judiciary and political leaders alike. The court took serious note of the incident and questioned the act of the police. It asked the Thrissur city police commissioner to ...Read More >
KOZHIKODE: Wayanad Congress unit has been on the defensive after back-to-back suicides by party leaders, the latest being local leader Jose Nelledam after former DCC treasurer N M Vijayan's suicide in Dec 2024. Incidentally, Vijayan's daughter-in-law Padmaja Vijesh attempted suicide on Saturday citing apathy by Congress. CPM tried to seize the moment and reached out to the victims' kin.CPM state secretariat member M V Jayarajan visited Padmaja and Nelledam's kin on Sunday and said Congress in Wa ...Read More >
Padmaja alleges that Congress cheated her family by not clearing the debt of ₹2.5 crore her father-in-law had incurred allegedly at the behest of the party A day after Jose Neeledam, a member of the Mullankolli panchayat, was found dead in a pond, a suicide attempt by Padmaja Vijesh, daughter-in-law of N.M. Vijayan, the former District Congress Committee treasurer who committed suicide in December 2024, rocked the Congress in Wayanad district on Saturday. Ms. Padmaja had, on Friday met media ...Read More >
KALPETTA: The Congress in Kerala has been thrown into fresh turmoil after the family of late leader N M Vijayan released an audio clip of Kottayam MLA Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, in which he is heard lambasting the party leadership for "dirty politics" and betrayal. Many feel Thiruvanchoor's words have laid bare the deep fractures within the Congress in Wayanad, which is already reeling from a series of suicides linked to infighting and broken assurances, and the party is now staring at a cred ...Read More >
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