CPI stakes claim for Deputy Leader of Opposition post

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has staked assertion for the station of Deputy Leader of Opposition successful the Kerala Assembly.

CPI State caput Binoy Viswam confirmed that his enactment has staked a assertion for the post. The Leader of the Opposition volition beryllium from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), but a ceremonial announcement is awaited arsenic to who volition clasp the post.

The CPI’s determination to spell for the station comes amid reports that elder CPI functionaries, astatine enactment meetings present the different day, had slammed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s enactment for the LDF debacle successful the 2026 Assembly elections.

In the LDF’s tally of 35 seats successful the 2026 Assembly polls, the CPI(M) has 26 seats, CPI 8, and the RJD, one. The CPI’s ain winning tally included 3 of its 4 ministers - P. Prasad. K. Rajan and G.R. Anil.