Elected representatives entered through the back door for legislature building in order to reach the President’s chair first. Then the rival party’s leader claimed to be the legitimate leader and convened a parallel meeting on the same floor. Elected officials switched party alliances to overthrown leaders of the older party. These sound like the events taking place in Kerala’s state legislative assembly. However these are the events from New York State Legislature.

The New York State Legislature is in the midst of a political turmoil and no one seems to have a control over the matters. The Governor claims to be in charge the judiciary wants remain distant from the bickering and the legislators are too busy with mudslinging. Although I was in India when the June 8^th attempted coup took place the fallout is still going on. All this politics in Albany makes for an interesting read.

The events in Kerala are also quite similar. The Chief Minister’s primary enemies are from his own part. The CPI is split into two camps with the CM enjoying only a minority support form the party’s cadres but wider support from the people of Kerala. Pinrayi Vijayan, party secretary is the rival to CM. Pinarayi is under investigation for corruption under the SNC Lavalin case. Pinarayi is accused of conspiring with top government officials in the late 90s when he was minister in charge of electricity department. The alleged corruption left the state at loss of several millions of dollars. SNC Lavalin, a Canadian company denies any wrong doing. Regardless of the veracity of the event this has become a polarizing point in the state.

Both states, Kerala and New York, are undergoing political turmoil. I don’t think that it will be long before the crisis in Albany is cleared up. For Kerala however this is one among many issues that Keralites have just gotten used to.