Powertrip: PV Anvar joins TMC, but is Congress really out?
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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Haritha John. This week we write about the curious case of ex-Kerala legislator PV Anvar joining the TMC and not the Congress. In the Karnataka Congress, a rift between a section of Dalit leaders and state in-charge Randeep Surjewala is widening. After the union government asked the Kerala state government to provide land in Cheemeni to set up a nuclear power plant, local members of the state’s governing CPIM have made it clear that they will strongly protest the move.
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