She’s a reluctant candidate. KK Rema didn’t want to contest the Vadakara seat for the United Democratic Front, led by the Congress. But she gave in to the UDF pressure to run as the candidate of the Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP).
Rema, who hails from a family of communist supporters, has an aversion to Pinarayi Vijayan and the CPM. That stems from the murder of her husband, T.P. Chandrasekharan, a former CPM member who earned the Marxists’ displeasure with his divergent views. His move to launch RMP only made matters worse. He was hacked to death in 2012, and the 11 who were convicted included three CPM activists. That’s the source of Rema’s anger, and UDF hopes to capitalise on that.
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