History repeats, Left won God's own country

It also seems that the Congress had hoped that the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena of Hindu Ezhava leader Velapally Natesan would eat into the vote bank of the Left in about a dozen seats. However, this was nothing but a miscalculation. Moreover, the UDF government failed to come up with a pragmatic liquor policy and the selection of Congress candidates was flawed.