In his first remarks since the Kerala local body poll results were announced, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan acknowledged that the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) did not achieve the expected results, and the reasons will be studied in detail.

The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has scripted a decisive win in the Kerala local body polls, even as the LDF suffered a setback. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) made a historic win in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, where it secured its first-ever win.

The final results of the local body polls, which were held in two phases in the state earlier this week, came as a huge setback for the LDF, which lost control of four out of the five municipal corporations where it was in power. Kozhikode Corporation remains

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