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Kozhikode usually favours the Left Democratic Front in assembly elections. The Congress has not won an assembly seat from the Kozhikode district since 2001.
There was no confusion in choosing sitting MP M K Raghavan, who won twice from Kozhikode, where the party does not have an upper hand vis-a-vis Assembly constituencies.
No case against LDF convener A Vijayaraghavan can be framed for verbal abuse of the UDF candidate, Director General of Prosecutions (DGP) has told the police.
Rival CPM chose a popular face to fight the sitting MP, and the Kozhikode North MLA became its candidate.
A Hindi news channel had, on April 3, aired visuals purportedly showing Raghavan negotiating a bribe for land acquisition in the city for setting up a hotel.
NDA candidate K P Prakash Babu said the NDA got votes from the backers of Democratic Youth Federation of India's (DYFI) national president P A Mohamed Riyas.
This has been spurred by the recent arrest of its Lok Sabha candidate over a previous case related to the Sabarimala agitation.
The CPM is likely to field Kozhikode North MLA A Pradeep Kumar to wrest the seat.
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