Assembly Elections 2011

BJP is inclusive and secular: Alphons Bureaucrat-turned-MLA Alphons Kannanthanam, who till recently was a CPM-backed independent from Kanjirappally in Kerala, prefers to call himself "an innovative administrator who believes there is nothing impossible".

Kerala plays a guessing game The official position of both fronts-LDF and UDF- though is that their chief ministerial candidate will be selected only after the polls, howsoever strange that may sound.

Tiger whimpers in freebie fest The loudest pro-Tiger voice of Tamil Nadu, Vaiko, is off the electoral platform. And the AIADMK, routed in three successive polls, appears to have realized that in Tamil Nadu, the Lanka factor can't win polls.

Mamata canvasses for success "Change is the core of this election. No one can reverse the course," Mamata Banerjee says smothering her brush in a palette and making a strong, sweeping statement on the canvas.

Kerala church's silence puzzles The church raked up a controversy last year when it issued a clutch of such letters ahead of the local body polls telling the laity how to vote.