India's Last Communist State Government Falls in Kerala

Kerala voters ended five decades of left-wing governance, ousting the Left Democratic Front (LDF) state government in assembly elections. The defeat marks the end of the last communist-run state government in India, a milestone in the country's post-independence political evolution. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) returned to power. The result is particularly significant as Kerala had alternated between left and Congress coalitions every five years — this cycle ending communist rule entirely breaks that pattern and shifts India's political map further from the left.