Kerala polls: LDF will overcome setback and make strong comeback, says CPI(M) leader E.P. Jayarajan

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Senior CPI (M) person E P Jayarajan connected Friday said the party-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) would flooded its “unexpected” electoral setback successful the Kerala Assembly polls and marque a beardown comeback aft “correcting its shortcomings.”

In a Facebook post, Mr. Jayarajan said the standard of the decision suffered by the LDF successful the predetermination was “completely unexpected.”

"We ne'er expected specified a immense setback. Kerala had witnessed exemplary governance during the past 10 years. Yet the setback happened," helium said.

Referring to erstwhile Chief Minister E M S Namboodiripad, Mr Jayarajan said that portion functioning wrong the model of "bourgeois democracy", lapses could hap and the CPI(M) and the Left would close them.

"If determination were immoderate specified lapses, the CPI(M) and the Left person the spot to close them and determination ahead. We volition marque a beardown comeback by bringing backmost sections of radical who moved distant owed to misunderstandings and different reasons,” helium said.

Mr Jayarajan said the communist question successful Kerala and India had not progressed done uninterrupted victories alone, but done analysing setbacks and making corrections.

Recalling governmental history, helium said the 1957 Namboodiripad authorities had implemented respective payment measures but was dismissed done what helium termed the misuse of law provisions and antiauthoritarian subversion.

Mr Jayarajan said the LDF authorities that came to powerfulness successful 2016 had secured a consecutive word successful 2021, but contempt what helium described arsenic fantabulous governance implicit the past decade, it suffered a setback successful the latest election.

"The CPI(M) and the Left person the spot to flooded this setback too,” helium said.

Slams UDF connected CM enactment talks

At the aforesaid time, Mr. Jayarajan criticised the Congress-led UDF implicit the ongoing discussions regarding the enactment of the adjacent Chief Minister.

"Look astatine the different side. They are warring for the Chief Minister's seat successful a mode that insults the radical who voted for them. Even with 102 MLAs (UDF tally), they are incapable to prime a Chief Minister from among themselves and are looking towards the High Command," helium alleged.

He claimed the developments would soon make an detonation wrong the Congress and the UDF.

Mr Jayarajan besides expressed interest implicit what helium termed the "fascist-style antiauthoritarian slaughter" being carried retired by the Sangh Parivar successful nationalist politics.

Claiming that the BJP came to powerfulness successful West Bengal aft "excluding 95 lakh voters," helium alleged that attempts were besides being made to play governmental games successful Tamil Nadu done the Governor.

"The Left indispensable go stronger to defy these fascist tendencies that question to destruct ideology and secularism," helium said.

He warned that adjacent a flimsy weakening of the Left successful Kerala would supply abstraction for “communal forces” to turn and endanger the State's secular traditions and societal progress.

"These are the realities earlier america and the CPI(M) and the Left volition undertake activities keeping each this successful caput successful the coming days," helium added.

Published - May 08, 2026 03:17 p.m. IST

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