State of play
Currently devoid of power at the Centre and in the State, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second largest partner in the Congress-led UDF, is standing at a crossroads in Kerala politics.
The party was a part of the Congress-led UPA at the national level. It did not expect the Narendra Modi government to return for a second time at the Centre in 2019. Nor did it expect the ruling CPI (Marxist)-led LDF coalition to win a consecutive term in the 2021 Kerala Assembly polls breaking a decades-old tradition of two dominant pre-poll alliances in the State being alternatively voted to power.
