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This was a seat that the CPM had wrested from the Congress in 1996, using a young 35-year-old area secretary named Raju Abraham. Ever since, in the four subsequent general elections, Raju had never tasted defeat.
Contrary to earlier surveys that predicted a massive LDF win, the exit polls hinted at a stiff electoral battle, making UDF hopeful.
Three-cornered contests are the new reality in Thiruvananthapuram. If the BJP won more than 20 per cent votes in 35 local bodies, eight of them are in the southern district. Yet the BJP could not replace the LDF or the UDF anywhere.
CPI’s C K Asha, the sitting legislator, Congress’s Dr P R Sona and BDJS’s Ajitha Sabu faced hardly any challenges from their party colleagues at the time of candidate selection.
Women keep Aroor's economy alive, peeling shrimps in numerous processing sheds and making coir in the many centres along the coastal constituency.
The BJP increased its votes by about 20,000 in four assembly constituencies in 2016. Upsetting the matrix further is a new entrant named Twenty20, promoted by a business house.
Facing allegations involving a deal related to deep sea trawling, Mercykutty Amma refuses to be defensive.
Started as an NGO backed by the Anna-Kitex Group, Twenty20 evolved to be a political party after its Kizhakkambalam experiment became a success gaining national attention.
With the largest voter share among Kerala’s district, Malappuram has 16 assembly constituencies. The UDF won 12 of them in the 2016 assembly election, while the LDF scored surprise goals in two seats to claim a total of four.
The LDF can command an enviable position if it wrests the Kottayam district from the UDF. If the UDF retains its stranglehold over the district, the Kerala Congress politics would enter a new phase.