L ocal body elections rarely announce the fall of empires. They Whisper. They murmur. They leak truths that the grand stages try to conceal. What we are witnessing now is not a sudden collapse but a slow, audible cracking – the sound of a party that mistook fear for consent, obedience for belief and silence for approval.

The wall writing is not innocent. They are not spontaneous graffiti of enthusiasm. This is advance warning, a rough draft of a verdict that will be written more clearly in the 2026 Assembly elections. Then signal a revenge that does not shout, because it no longer needs to. The common people have learned a quieter language of refusal.

For nearly a decade, the CPM under Pinarayi Vijayan replaced politics with command. Cadres became enforcers, party offices turned into un

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