The Hindu

Failure to read political trends and course correct in real time resulted in LDFs defeat, feels CPI(M)

Failure to call out Vellappally Natesans anti-Muslim invective, the covert Congress-BJP alliance, and the delay in expelling Padmakumar in the Sabarimala case, caste identity politics pivoting towards a majoritarian Hindutva agenda, and CPI(M)s organisational weaknesses compounded the scale of defeat