Comprehensive political victory for LDF

Poll victories seldom have the kind of multidimensionality that the smashing victory that the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) has scored in the Chengannur Assembly byelection. The alliance has registered a record win in the constituency, located at the intersection of the big political divide in the State, using brilliant political positioning, canny manoeuvring, and massive grassroots mobilisation.
The bypoll outcome is in a way a personal victory for Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who, it could well be said, has done it the way only he can: answering his critics with a smashing victory in a byelection that was widely seen and spoken about as being a referendum on his government and, indirectly, on his style of functioning. 

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