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KC (M) leader and MP Thomas Chazhikadan fired the first salvo after his party’s high-level committee meeting.
Mani junior's wife Nisha and brother-in-law are said to be front-runners for nomination.
Nisha's name was doing the rounds among the probable UDF candidates for the Kottayam Lok Sabha seat
Former Kerala Finance Minister and Kerala Congress chairman K M Mani, 86, passed away in a hospital in Kochi.
K M Mani was first elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1965 from the just-formed Pala assembly constituency.
Father used to say that all he had were the party workers who loved the party dearly.
Kuttiyamma is the niece of P T Chacko, the Congress stalwart whose supporters eventually formed the Kerala Congress.
A seven-member subcommittee led by Thomas Chazhikadan, MP, has been set up to decide the candidate.
Ever since its formation in 1965, the Pala constituency in Kottayam district had been represented by Kerala Congress (M) supremo KM Mani, whose demise in April has necessitated the by-poll.
The Pala seat became vacant after Mani, who had represented the constituency continuously ever since its formation in1965, died on April 9.
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