Highlights of India Today Malayalam issue dated April 9th, 2014. The issue has covered many important stories on the 16th loksabha elections. Cover story on BJP explores the present situation of BJP in four southern states of India and arrives at the conclusion that it may be difficult to arrive at a southern wave as ground realities are different even in Karnataka it may fare low compared to the last elections . Big story on elections is discussing about the parachute politicians contesting the election. An exclusive interview with expelled BJP leader Jaswanth Singh looks at the various issues prevailing in BJP. V S Achuthanandan, Opposition leader in Kerala legislative assembly and V M Sudheeran, KPCC president who are considered as the rebel voices in CPM and Congress respesctively. But their changing stands on various issues is a discussion point in kerala politics. A story about this issue is carrying prominently in latest issue of India Today Malayalam. An interview with RMP leader K K Rema, wife of slain T P Chandrasekharan's wife, is also included in the story. The story about the burning issues which has taken an important space in election discussion table in kerala is another one in election package. Round up of star constituncies is analysing the political and caste issues of Thiruvananthapuram where Sashi Tharoor from UDF and O Rajagopal from BJP and chalakudy from PC cahycko from UDF and the actor innocent from LDF is contesting . Ranking of MP's in existing loksabha is giving an eyevview of the overall performance of MP's to readers. A guest column by Naveen Chawla, Ex chief of election commission of India, deals with the youth voters in country. Professor T J Joseph, victim of terrorism and church, was taken back to the service by Catholic church. Eminent writer and political commentator Paul Zakharia writes on it ry. Story related with Supreme court's intervention in spot fixing issue in last IPL season and ousting of BCCI chief N Sreenivasan is another important story from the world of sports.