Kerala Assembly elections: On silent campaign day, war of words rages on

Silent campaigning on the penultimate day of the Assembly elections in Kerala on Wednesday (April 8, 2026) was anything but muted.

Opposing campaigns indulged in muckraking in a last-minute bid to recast the electoral agenda to their advantage as the clock wound down to the voting day on Thursday (April 9). Political sniping seemed fierce in battleground Assembly constituencies, where a few hundred votes could possibly tip an election.