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‘NDA may have lost its lone seat in Kerala, but is making a mark’ May 03, 2021 It is a runner up in nine seats this time against six in 2016 The NDA may have lost its lone seat of Nemom in Kerala and seen a significant erosion in vote share to 11.3 per cent, but it can draw comfort from the fact that it has come up in the second position in as many as nine seats. This is an improvement on the 2016 tally when it was runners-up in only six though with a vote share of 14.96 per cent. The nine seats are Manjeswar (K Surendran, State President, with vote share of 37.7 per cent); Nemom (Kummanam Rajasekharan, 35.54 per cent); Palakkad (Metroman E Sreedharan, 35.34 per cent); Kasaragod (K Sreekanth, 34.88 per cent); Malampuzha (C Krishnakumar, 30.68 per cent); Chathannoor (BB Gopakumar, 30.61 per cent); Kazhakkoottam (Sobha Surendran, 29.06 per cent); Vattiyoorkavu (VV Rajesh, 28.77 per cent); and Attingal (P Sudheer, 25.92 per cent). ....
Lathika Subhash resigned as Mahila Congress president after being denied a ticket in the assembly polls. She also got her head tonsured in protest against the inadequate representation of women in the candidate list THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress announced its list of candidates for the assembly election on Sunday after week-long discussions. The list, which according to KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran indicated a “generation shift”, was however greeted by protests in parts of the state. Mahila Congress state president Lathika Subhash staged the most dramatic protest in front of KPCC headquarters here immediately after Ramachandran read out the candidates names in New Delhi. She got her head tonsured in protest against denial of seat to her. Lathika, who wanted to contest in Ettumanoor, also quit the president s post. ....