Incumbent Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Left Democratic Front (LDF) won the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections.
Pinarayi Vijayan, who had contested from the Dharmadam Assembly constituency in Kerala, managed to retain power in the state and led the LDF to scripting history by bucking the anti-incumbency trend in Kerala.
In the past four decades, power swung between the Congress-led United Democratic Front and the LDF in every term, with incumbents never making a comeback in Kerala. However, after breaking that 40-year jinx, ‘Captain’ Vijayan and his party are all set to serve the people of Kerala for another five years.
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With the communist-backed LDF securing a win in Kerala, congratulatory messages started flowing in for Pinarayi Vijayan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated him and said:
Sitaram Yechury, the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), went ahead and thanked the “people of Kerala for reposing faith in the LDF government”.
JD(S) leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy congratulated the Kerala Chief Minister for LDF's "consecutive victory". He tweeted:
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted:
The official Twitter handle of CPM too tweeted a congratulatory message stating that the “LDF is set to make a historic win”.
Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac tweeted: "We have closed the account that BJP opened in the Kerala assembly in the 2016 election. Kerala has become the only assembly in India that has no representative from BJP. Kerala will remain the citadel of secularism in the country. #LDFVictory"
Vijayan was also congratulated by Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar.
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