Express News Service
KOTTAYAM: After Kerala Congress (M) chairman Jose Okay Mani’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha, hypothesis is rife that he can be contesting within the upcoming meeting elections, that are due in May this 12 months. Though Jose has not disclosed his plan, political observers say Jose would contemplate both Pala or Kaduthuruthy for his maiden contest to the state meeting.
While Jose usually states that Pala is emotionally linked with the emotions of KC(M), as social gathering founder and his father Okay M Mani had by no means tasted a defeat in his five-decades-long electoral politics, Kaduthuruthy is at all times thought-about a trusted bastion of the social gathering. Hence, it received’t be straightforward for Jose to decide on one over the opposite if he decides to contest to the meeting. According to KC(M) insiders and political analysts, Jose is more likely to choose Kaduthuruthy slightly than Pala, contemplating a number of elements.
First of all, LDF had made virtually a clear sweep in Kaduthuruthy within the current native physique elections after KC(M) got here to its fold. Of the 11 grama panchayats within the constituency, LDF got here to energy in 9 whereas UDF managed to win solely two panchayats, that too with the assist of others. The grama panchayats on this constituency are a part of three block panchayats (Kaduthuruthy, Uzhavoor and Pampady) and LDF is in energy in all these with a transparent majority. These elements had been identified by KC(M) leaders together with its district president Sunny Thekkedam shortly after the election of presidents and vice-presidents of the native our bodies.
In Pala, LDF might achieve energy solely in seven of the 12 native our bodies within the constituency. While UDF received 5 grama panchayats, NDA is in energy in a single panchayat. Moreover, KC(M)’s hegemony is proscribed to Pala municipality, and Karoor and Meenachil panchayats. Mani C Kappan, the sitting MLA of Pala, who has already protested brazenly in opposition to LDF’s transfer at hand over Pala seat to the KC(M), had earlier identified the setback Jose’s social gathering had suffered within the LSG elections there. “The KC(M) lost power in Ramapuram and Mutholi panchayats and LDF couldn’t get power in Melukavu, Moonnilavu and Thalappala panchayats as well. The LDF couldn’t retain the achievements we had made during the previous byelection to the assembly,” Kappan stated then.
Of the seven panchayats in Pala the place LDF is in energy, UDF has sturdy presence in Kadanad, Elikkulam, Meenachil and Thalanadu.According to sources, Jose is probably going to decide on Kaduthuruthy citing that Marangattupilly, the place his father’s ancestral home is positioned, is on this constituency. “Even K M Mani had considered Kaduthuruthy as a safe constituency when he had a tough fight in the previous election in view of bar bribery case. Moreover, Marangattupilly, Kadaplamattom, Uzhavoor and Veliyannoor, which are now part of Kaduthuruthy, were in Pala constituency before delimitation,” stated a Congress chief.
