The Hindu

Kerala CPI(M)s self-critical review document preludes an organisational rectification process in State unit starting in September 2026

Review of Left Democratic Front (LDF)s Assembly election debacle in Kerala. CPI(M) notes that its messaging about transformational development did not resonate among the middle classes. The growing influence of caste- and religion-tinted identity politics causes an erosion of the partys basic voters, namely workers, agricultural workers and poor peasants