Lobbying within the Congress intensified in Kerala as supporters of V D Satheesan, K C Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala pushed their leaders’ claims for the chief minister’s post following the UDF’s Assembly election victory and return to power after a decade
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan resigned after the CPI(M)-led LDF’s heavy poll defeat, handing power to the Congress-led UDF. Asked to continue till a successor is named, his exit ends a decade-long tenure marked by crisis management, controversies, and centralised governance
