The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a Left Democratic Front (LDF) ally with two MLAs and a Cabinet berth in the Pinarayi Vijayan government, seemed to face a political predicament its alliance partner, the Janata Dal (S), is struggling to fend off.
A leader of the NCP (Ajith Pawar faction) in Kerala, N.A. Mohammad Kutty, sought to put the LDF under duress by demanding Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran’s resignation from the Cabinet.
The demand has provenance in the internal split that has plagued the NCP at the national level since last year.