It is a political plight generations of comrades have not seen or experienced. With the CPI(M)-led Left government suffering a defeat in Kerala , India will not have a Communist chief minister for the first time in five decades. The Left bloc was in power in West Bengal from 1977 to 2011. It ruled Tripura from 1993 to 2018. And in Kerala, it returned to power every five years and convincingly broke the trend in 2021. While Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress ended the 34-year Guinness record-worthy Left Front rule in West Bengal in 2011, the 25-year-old Left Front rule in Tripura came to an end with the BJP surprisingly decimating it in 2018. The BJP repeated the feat in 2023. Last bastion crumbles The Pinarayi Vijayan -led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, which came to power in 2016, was the last Communist outpost that crumbled today. For the first time since 1977, there will be no Communist chief minister in India.…