alt Hacker NewsKerala has alternated between a left-wing coalition(the Left Democratic Front - LDF) and a centrist to centre-right coalition(the United Democratic Front - UDF) for a long time. The current major communist party in Kerala, though ideologically Marxist-Leninist, is practically a social democratic one in its policies and actions.
Some years ago I was planning to set up subsidiary development centres in tier 2 cities, including Trivandrum.
My team - mostly from Kerala - came to me en masse and told me not to, and this was long before Nokku Kooli became a well known thing.
Don't know or care whether it was during UDF/LDF or whatever rule.
A couple of years ago a major clothes manufacturer, founded in that state, packed up and left.
A parallel from WB: Tata's moved their automobile factory to Gujarat, which has since then shipped over a million cars.