POLITICS IN KERALA

POLITICS IN KERALA Kerala is a state where politics and political parties have a major impact on human life.Left Democratic Front(LDF),United Democratic Front(UDF) and Bharatheeya Janatha Party(BJP) are the main political parties in the main stream.Politics in Kerala is dominated by two coalition fronts;THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA commonly known as Left Democratic Front(LDF) and the INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS commonly known as United Democratic Front(UDF).The government is often formed by these two parties and the most unusaual and interesting fact is that after each 5 years these two political parties are forming government one after the other.

One other important fact is that politics is mostly influenced by religion .Many political parties such as Muslime League are having high influence among the Muslim community.In Kerala politics is embedded in their blood.We cannot cross a road without seeing the flux and posters of political parties and politicians.According to the 2016 elections LDF have a majority in state assembly with 91 out of 140 seats.Now Pinarayi Vijayan is the Chief minister of Kerala with 18 membered minister panel.

Politics is even influencing the young minds of Kerala.In schools politics is banned,but in colleges even the college elections are based on the political parties prevailing in the scenerio of that local area.This is something different from the political situations of other states of India.This over influence of politics have created many problems which includes even bloodshed in different parts mostly in Kannur district.Kannur can be designated as the most viloent district of Kerala.During the last 45 years there has been 180 people killed because of political violence in Kannur. Bloodshed has become a major element of politics in Kannur.

Direct action and political violence has become a common feature of Kerala politics.There has been lose of thousands of millions of rupees due to hundreds of harthals and bhandhs which have been conducted annually.In 2016 assembly elections apart from the swinging between the two major parties there has been a major step by BJP which won a seat in Nemom.This is plotted as a landmark made by a party other than LDF and UDF.