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Being Hindu in a secular India. A deep-dive into culture and politics in India. Bi-weekly podcasts with the latest developments and in-depth analysis of the happenings in a country trying to perfect democracy while managing insane degrees of diversity.
Letter 5: Pinarayi 2.0 and A Game of Thrones in Kerala
Letters from the basement
8 minutes 23 seconds
4 years ago
Letter 5: Pinarayi 2.0 and A Game of Thrones in Kerala
Pinarayi Vijayan was recently elected as Chief Minister of Kerala for a second term. n addition to whether he is going to continue with the same PR model of governance that proved successful for him and if he is going to continue with the backdoor appointments and scams and scandals that Malayalis don’t seem to mind, another aspect that needs to be closely observed in the next 5 years is the developing power struggle within Kerala CPIM. People who follow Kerala politics know, Pinarayi is a master at political maneuvering and orchestrating power grab. The seeds of the current power politics playing out in the Kerala CPIM were laid ahead of the recent assembly elections when Pinarayi created an arbitrary rule and denied tickets to most senior party leaders and sidelined the few who got elected from inclusion in the state cabinet. In this vlog I examine this brewing game of thrones in Kerala politics.
Letters from the basement
Being Hindu in a secular India. A deep-dive into culture and politics in India. Bi-weekly podcasts with the latest developments and in-depth analysis of the happenings in a country trying to perfect democracy while managing insane degrees of diversity.
