Kochi, April 5 -- As the curtain came down on Sunday evening for the high pitch campaign for the April 6 Assembly election in Kerala, the electorate were faced with two questions. Would they be part of breaking the jinx and voting the ruling party back to power. Will the CPI(M)-led LDF be able to break the nearly four-decades long pattern that has seen rulers getting vanquished and the Opposition coming to power for the next five years in all elections held since 1980.
The 1977 election was the last time a ruling coalition led by the Congress and that included the CPI, RSP, Muslim League and a host of fringe groups returning to power with a massive mandate of 114 out of the 140 seats.
But that government did not last for more than two yea...