The BJP’s attempt to field the first MBA graduate from the Paniya tribal community in Mananthavady has failed with the candidate turning down the offer saying he had already told the party he was not keen on contesting. C. Manikandan, 31, who works as a teaching assistant at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Wayanad, and is not even a primary member of the party, refused to take the field after finding his name in the BJP’s list of candidates announced on Sunday for the Assembly elections. “Some local BJP leaders had called me on phone three weeks ago to ask me if I was interested in contesting. But I had clearly told them that I was not inclined to contest as I am not even a BJP sympathiser,” he told