Kerala Polls: Key Faces to Look Out for on Election Results Day
The state election results are scheduled to be declared on May 2.
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New Delhi: In the run-up to the single phase election for 140 assembly seats, Kerala witnessed a fierce campaign led by the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-led NDA, which hopes to fracture the decades-old bipolar polity led by UDF and LDF. The state election results are scheduled to be declared on May 2.
Here are some of the key candidates to keep an eye out for on May 2.
The election challenge will pale in front of the struggle that young Sobha Subin has faced growing up.
Sobha, the Congress candidate making a strong pitch in the Left bastion of Kaipamangalam in Thrissur district, has long attracted attention for the unusual name for a man. The 35-year-old Kerala Youth Congress general secretary was named after his mother who was killed by his father.
Sobha was just eight months old when his mother was killed and his father landed in jail for the crime. With no one to take care of him, Sobha’s maternal aunt Omana and maternal uncle Subramanian, a fisherman, took up guardianship. While Omana didn’t marry, Subramanian married when Sobha was 13 years old.
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KSU, BJYM marches turn violent in Palakkad
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The police use water cannons to disperse protesters
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The police removing a KSU protester who broke the police cordon and went into the PSC office at the District Collectorate at Palakkad on Monday.
The police use water cannons to disperse protesters
The Collectorate here witnessed protests and violence on Monday when the workers of the KSU and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) took out marches in protest against the alleged back-door appointments by the government.
Police caned the protesters and used water cannons to disperse them when they tried to barge into the PSC office by breaking the police cordon. Several BJYM and KSU workers were injured in the action. BJYM State vice president E.P. Nandakumar inaugurated the Yuva Morcha march. District president Prasant Sivan presided. Vice president K.M. Pratheesh, district secretaries Naveen Vadakkanthara and Prasant Vadavannur, and distri