Hyderabad, Sept. 22 -- Left seems all all set to fade away from the Indian political landscape by 2026, when its last bastion, Kerala, goes to polls. Perilously close to the BJP in Kerala, the CPM faces the prospect of Minorities moving away from the Left in Kerala, upsetting its electoral applecart. Earlier, the Left bastions to fall were West Bengal to the Trinamool Congress and Tripura to the BJP. If the last bastion of Kerala falls in 2026, then the Left may well be relegated to history.

Kerala seems to be going the BJP way, with Left losing its cadre and vote base to the BJP. By winning a straight second term in office in Kerala, the Left bucked decades-old trend of the Congress-led UDF and CPM-led LDF coming to power alternatively....