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BJP makes mark in Kerala’s Left citadel
Hindustan Times Ranchi
|December 14, 2025
Riding on anti-incumbency sentiments against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) swept the elections to the three-tier rural and urban local bodies in Kerala, widely dubbed the semi-final before the Assembly elections next year, while the BJP scripted history by winning power in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation for the first time.
BJP workers celebrate the victory in the Kerala local body polls at a counting station in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.
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The elections were conducted in two phases on December 9 and II with 73.69% of the eligible 2.86 crore voters exercising their franchise to elect their representatives at the grassroots level in Grama Panchayats (GP), Block Panchayats (BP), District Panchayats (DP), Municipalities and Municipal Corporations (MC).
This story is from the December 14, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Ranchi.
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