Chandy’s fifth year and ‘S’ and ‘B’ factors

Into the fifth and final year of Oommen Chandy's rule, its ‘Saritha’ and ‘Bar’ that is going to stay with the people as the greatest contribution of the Chandy government.  Its the negatives that always becomes hot topics of discussion rather than all the positives. Well, the people cant be blamed also with Chandy and his team always in the helm of Saritha or bar or infighting with the congress or the UDF.

No metro, Vizhinjam port, smart city or any other development activities is going stay along with Chandy and his team but sure the ‘S’and ‘B’ factors.

Into the fifth year and the final year, Chandy has come out with some programmes of providing insurance to Asha workers, renovating fishermen colonies, digitalising text books and providing welfare pensions direct to the bank accounts. And Chandy also announced his priority of completing all the projects undertaken.  

Though full with projects, the government is raked with scandals, allegations of corruption and infighting, which no doubt will haunt chandy and his team down to the last days.

But one thing is there that Chandy will be facing the toughest fight within his Congress and his UDF. Even some young turks in the congress has come up saying that Chandy government, terming is under dark shadows of graft. But Chandy has a solace that he has no threat from the opposition. Even after all the scandals and allegations of corruption, the Opposition has let the chandy ship to sail safe to the shore. They do not even show the courage that some of the Congress leaders have. And with all the scandals and corruptions, Chandy still sails along…..   

Chandy is new Kerala CM

Senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy was sworn in as the 21st Chief Minister of Kerala at an exciting function at Raj Bhavan here on May 18.

Governor R S Gavai administered the oath of office and secrecy to Chandy.

Leaders of six constituents of the United Democratic Front were also sworn in as ministers at the function.

Outgoing Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and a number of his former ministerial

Colleagues were present at the function.

Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P K Kunhalikutty, Kerala Congress (M) leader K M Mani, Socialist Janata (Democratic) leader K P Mohanan, Kerala Congress (Jacob) leader T M Jacob, KC (B) leader K B Ganesh Kumar and Revolutionary Socialist Party (Baby John) leader Shibu Baby John are the others were sworn in today...more.... http://keralz.com/news/kerala/2011/may/may4.html

CPI(M) led Front suffers set back in Kerala polls

The CPI(M) led Left Democratic Front in Kerala suffered a major set back in the three-tier local body elections with the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front surging ahead in both the urban and the local areas.

In a major blow to the LDF, the UDF wrested the Kochi Corporation after three long decades. The Left Front was also thrashed the UDF in Thrissur Corporation. In the last civic polls, the UDF had lost all the five corporations.

The LDF could only manage with Thiruvanathauram and Kollam corporations.

Of the 74 seats in Kochi Corporation, the UDF had got a clear majority, winning 47 seats. The LDF won in 23 while the BJP and independents won in two seats each. Out of the total 55 seats in Thrissur Corporation, the UDF made a clean sweep with 45 seats. The LDF had to be contended with just six seats and two seats each was won by the BJP and Independents.

It was a tight fight between the two fronts in Thiruvanathapuram, in which the Left front got 53 seats and the UDF 38 seats. The BJP has won in six seats while others won three seats. It was only in Kollam that the LDF had a comfortable win. They bagged 34 seats while the UDF got 19 seats. Two seats went to independent candidates.

Counting for the Kozhikode Corporation will be done Oct 31.

The UDF also had an upper hand in the municipalities. It won 39 of the Municipalities whereas the LDF got only 18 municipalities.

The LDF was behind the UDF in the District Panchayat, block Panchayat and grama panchayats.

In the last elections, the Left Democratic front was in power in 12 of 14 district panchayats, 33 of the 53 municipalities, 114 of 152 block panchayats and 688 of 984 gram panchayats.

Cong registers thumping victory in Kerala

The Congress led United Democratic Front has retained all the three assembly constituencies defeating their arch rivals CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front with a huge margin, the results for which were announced on November 10.

Two times MP from Kannur A P Abdullakutty, who had joined the Congress after his long stint with the Marxists, won the Kannur Assembly on a Congress ticket with a huge margin of 12,043 votes. CPI (M) candidate M V Jayarajan got 41,944 votes.

Former Minister Dominic Presentation of the Congress won the Ernakulam constituency, defeating his CPI (M) rival P N Seenulal for a margin of 8,620 votes. Congress candidate A A Shukoor defeated Mr G Krishnaprasad of the CPI in Alappuzha. Shukoor won the constituency with a margin of 4,745 votes.
The BJP could not fare well in the three assembly segments. BJP candidate in Kannur, Renjith, could only poll 5,665 Votes. In Alappuzha, K Babu got only 2,247 votes and Sobha Surendran in Ernakulam bagged only 7,208 Votes. .. Read more at www.keralz.com