It’s no surprise that the Congress in Kerala sees Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan as a worse adversary than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After all, by winning two elections in a row, the Left Democratic Front leader robbed the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) of its traditionally assured return to power for five years after every five years out of it, altering the routine pattern of shifting political fortunes in the state. However, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to extend its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls, which drew much flak in the Bihar context, to the rest of the country has brought the rivals in Kerala together against what they perceive as a shared threat.

On September 29, the Kerala assembly unanimously passed a resoluti

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