Late-blooming lotus: BJP sees an influx of professionals in Kerala
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Despite the BJP winning two municipalities and 19 village panchayats in local body elections, it won just 1,600 of 22,000 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Idukki district president KS Aji was elated when the party retained eight of the 35 wards in the municipality of Thodupuzha, a small town in the hilly district in Kerala, in the local body elections in December.
“We had begun our work six months in advance and went about scientifically analysing the social structure and issues before finalising our candidates and manifesto,” Aji told ET Magazine. “Yet we are disappointed that in spite of all that hard work, our vote share and the number of seats in the Thodupuzha municipality remained the same.”
A few challenges for the Left in its bastion
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Elathur is underdeveloped when compared to Kozhikode North
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Elathur is underdeveloped when compared to Kozhikode North
Geographically, Elathur Assembly segment is a kind of microcosm of Kerala, with a coastal belt of the Arabian sea in the west, Korapuzha river in the north, and serene backwaters, sandy lowlands, lateritic midland, and hilly portions on its eastern side.
Demographically, this suburban rural continuum, carved out of Koduvally, Kunnamangalam and Balussery constituencies after delimitation of Assembly segments a decade ago, has 75% of Hindu population almost equally divided between Thiyya and Nair communities and over 20% belonging to the Muslim community.
CPI(M)’s view to decide Saseendran’s candidature
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The Central leadership of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) may decide on the candidature of Minister A.K. Saseendran after seeking an opinion from Communist Party of India (Marxist) State unit.
Sources said the party was offered three seats Elathur (Kozhikode), Kottakkal ( Malappuram) and Kuttanad (Alappuzha) for the coming Assembly polls. But the Elathur constituency appeared to be a bone of contention after a section of leaders in the Kozhikode district executive committee objected to Mr. Saseendran running for the third time in a row. The meeting had recommended four other names to be fielded from Elathur. The faction opposing Mr. Saseendran said that he had been continuously contesting on the party ticket without giving a chance to others.