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Jose, son of the late KM Mani, contested the 2021 Assembly elections from Pala but secured only 39.3 per cent of the votes, finishing second to UDF's Mani C Kappan.
Counsels representing the accused, Minister V Sivankutty and five other LDF leaders, told the court that the damages in the Assembly were caused by pushing and shoving.
KPCC president K Sudhakaran said that all panchayats in Kerala ruled by the UDF would adopt the Mathur model and ask citizens to refrain from using 'sir' and 'madam' to address functionaries.
For the Opposition, this was an opportunity to recall the CPM's public humiliation of K M Mani and, thereby, embarrass both the CPM and its new ally Kerala Congress (Mani) inside the Assembly.
The KC(M) was rattled when it was reported that the Kerala Government's counsel orally told the Supreme Court that the 'former finance minister was corrupt'.
If Jose K Mani wins Pala for the LDF and Mp Joseph wins Trikaripur for the UDF, the brothers-in-law could meet up in the legislative assembly in Thiruvananthapuram.
Former Kerala Finance Minister and Kerala Congress chairman K M Mani, 86, passed away in a hospital in Kochi.
K M Mani's autobiography would read like a chronicle of Kerala politics. He never got a break to write it though.
K M Mani was first elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1965 from the just-formed Pala assembly constituency.
Like a hardworking farmer, he cultivated the party that eventually came to bear his name.
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