Out of 20 Lok Sabha seats, the Left could win only one seat. And CPI did not get even a single seat on the four seats it had contested.
However, former state minister and two-time MLA Divakaran, without taking names, said that change has to happen and the Left cannot move forward like this.
He said, “There should be changes on a large scale and the path should be clear for the youth. When that is said, there should be no thought from any corner about the need for mental stability check,” Divakaran said.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Divakaran, then a sitting MLA, was fielded to take on Congress' Shashi Tharoor and lost by over 99,000 votes.Incidentally, the number of votes he got at that time was more than the votes his party colleague Paniyan Raveendran got in the 2024 elections.
With Divakaran firing the first shot, Varghese George, senior leader of Left ally RJD in Kerala, said the time for serious introspection has come for the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
“The vote share for the Left has declined by about 10 per cent and this is a big issue and should be seriously discussed. We need to be considered for the Rajya Sabha seat,” George said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Cherian Philip, who was a CPI(M) ally for a decade, said the way the current CPI(M) is moving in Kerala is reminiscent of the situation in West Bengal.“Whereas in West Bengal it took 34 years of rule for the CPI(M) to be wiped out. The situation after the results in 18 assembly constituencies held by Kerala ministers shows that they have lagged behind. The writing on the wall is clear, if things continue like this, the party will be defeated in the 2026 assembly elections,” Philip said.
All eyes are on the LDF meeting and also the CPI(M) meeting and it remains to be seen whether CM Vijayan's working style will be discussed in the party meeting or not.
However, former state minister and two-time MLA Divakaran, without taking names, said that change has to happen and the Left cannot move forward like this.
He said, “There should be changes on a large scale and the path should be clear for the youth. When that is said, there should be no thought from any corner about the need for mental stability check,” Divakaran said.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Divakaran, then a sitting MLA, was fielded to take on Congress' Shashi Tharoor and lost by over 99,000 votes.Incidentally, the number of votes he got at that time was more than the votes his party colleague Paniyan Raveendran got in the 2024 elections.
With Divakaran firing the first shot, Varghese George, senior leader of Left ally RJD in Kerala, said the time for serious introspection has come for the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
“The vote share for the Left has declined by about 10 per cent and this is a big issue and should be seriously discussed. We need to be considered for the Rajya Sabha seat,” George said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Cherian Philip, who was a CPI(M) ally for a decade, said the way the current CPI(M) is moving in Kerala is reminiscent of the situation in West Bengal.“Whereas in West Bengal it took 34 years of rule for the CPI(M) to be wiped out. The situation after the results in 18 assembly constituencies held by Kerala ministers shows that they have lagged behind. The writing on the wall is clear, if things continue like this, the party will be defeated in the 2026 assembly elections,” Philip said.
All eyes are on the LDF meeting and also the CPI(M) meeting and it remains to be seen whether CM Vijayan's working style will be discussed in the party meeting or not.
