Red Fort Blues Concerto

Achuthanandan will also have to devote much of his energies to managing factional conflicts. There are other pressures too, like supporters of jailed cleric Abdul Nasser Madani of the People’s Democratic Party, who is facing trial in the ’98 Coimbatore bomb blasts case. ThePDP and newly formed ultra outfit, the National Democratic Front’s (NDF) open campaign for theLDF had helped it make inroads into the Muslim bastion of Malappuram etc. The Kerala ministry will also be constantly compared with the one in Bengal. Achuthanandan will have to manage factional conflicts, keep the coalition intact while also coming out with a forward-looking prescription to maintain economic growth at 9.2 per cent. The last will also have to be married with development issues and the interests of the poor.