A constitutional crisis in Kerala has been averted with Transport Minister Thomas Chandy resigning from the 18-month-old Pinarayi Vijayan government, but the issue may continue to haunt the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) for a long time.
The LDF that came to power in May 2016 with the promise to provide a corruption-free government took around two months to take a decision on a district collector’s report that confirmed land grab charges against a backwater resort Chandy co-owned with his wife. Chandy belongs to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar.