V S Achuthanandan is the bete noire of many within his own Communist party as well as his rival political permutations and combinations because of his unbending nature.

He is not one who would swim with the current, when many leaders are more than willing to cowtow to various interests.

If the alternate tenure of governments being formed at the Kerala State level after every elections to the Assembly by Congress-led and Communists-led combinations does not break its jinx this time, the most probable Chief Minister would be Achuthanandan.

But his adversaries within the party, it appears, would see to it that he would not become the chief executive of the State. Either he would not win the elections, 0r his chances would be torpedoed after the elections.

But it would not be easy to throw him out, if he becomes an MLA and the Left Democratic Front gets the majority.
Therefore, the worst scenario is that his chances would be nipped in the bud by his own partymen during the elections.

But politics being the arena of occurrences of the most improbable, perhaps the State would have VS, as he is fondly addressed, as the Chief Minister.

But what about the jinx acting against minorities and backward classes nominees continuing Chief Minister ?
Even if he becomes the CM, what is the guarantee that he would complete the term ?

The Ugly Being working against these categories would play every card to topple them.
Other names like Oommen Chandy of the Congress-led front and Paloli Mohamedkutty of the Communists-led front also would not have the going smooth.

Anyway, the probables being bandied about by various fronts are from these sections.

Let us see whether some rank outsider of the Upper Castes would find himself atop the caret mark among the present list of probables.