P.V. Abdul Wahab, Brittas and Sivadasan elected to RS from Kerala
The three fresh vacancies arose as the tenure of Congress veteran Vayalar Ravi, Indian Union Muslim League leader Abdul Wahab and CPI-M leader K.K. Raghesh ended on April 21
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Thiruvananthapuram: The three candidates in the fray to the three Rajya Sabha seats that fell vacant from Kerala were declared elected by Assembly Secretary S.V. Unnikrishnan Nair on Friday.
The three are Indian Union Muslim League leader P.V. Abdul Wahab who was renominated by his party, while the other two, backed by the ruling CPI-M, are new faces - John Brittas, the Managing Director of of the party-backed Kairali TV channel, and V. Sivadasan.
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Kerala: Abhimanyu, a native of Padayanivettom, was stabbed to death in Alappuzha on Wednesday night. Kerala: CPM claims RSS behind Class X student Abhimanyu’s murder | Photo Credit: Twitter
Thiruvananthapuram: The murder of a 15-year-old school student during the Padayanivettom temple festival at Vallikunnam in Kerala’s Alappuzha district has snowballed into a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Abhimanyu, the Class X student, was stabbed to death during an altercation between two groups on Wednesday night.
As per the CPI(M), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was behind the murder of Abhimanyu, who was reportedly a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist. “It was a clear political murder,” said CPI(M) Alappuzha district secretary R Nazar.
Vijayan is the last word as Brittas, Sivadasan get RS nominations
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Thiruvananthapuram, April 16 : Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday once again proved that he is the last word in the CPI-M when two of his close aides John Brittas, managing director of Kairali TV, the party backed TV channel and V. Sivadasan, were cleared by the party state secretariat which met here, as the nominees for the two Rajya Sabha seats.
Like Vijayan, the two also hail from Kannur. Brittas, till Kairali TV channel was launched in the late nineties, was the bureau chief of the party organ Deshabhimani and was posted in Delhi.
CPI(M) nominates Brittas, Sivadasan to RS
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Abdul Wahab of IUML files nomination papers
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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] on Friday nominated journalist John Brittas and V. Sivadasan, CPI(M) State committee member, as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha election.
Mr. Brittas is currently the managing director of the CPI(M) controlled Kairali Television channel. He also spearheads the channel s political programming and is part of its commentariat.
Mr. Brittas had worked in New Delhi as correspondent of CPI(M) party organ Deshabhimani and later the Kairali television.