THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Seen as a semi-final to the 2026 assembly elections, Kerala’s local body polls delivered a bruising verdict Saturday against the governing LDF, handed Congress-led UDF a sweeping comeback across tiers of governance and opened a new chapter in the state capital as BJP-led NDA shattered three decades of Left control in Thiruvananthapuram corporation — a result Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed as a watershed moment in the state’s politics. Across the state, a sharp anti-incumbency wave cut through welfare claims and governance pitches, reducing LDF to its weakest grassroots showing in years. UDF surged ahead at every level of local self-govt, while BJP expanded its footprint beyond traditional limits, reshaping Kerala’s familiar bipolar contest into a triangular fig

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