Express News Service
KANNUR: Even as uncertainty over the candidate in Dharmadom continues within the Congress, some leaders dropped hints of a high-profile contest with the shock arrival of a senior chief. Though occasion employees have began a whisper marketing campaign about the potential for Okay Sudhakaran, MP of Kannur, coming into the fray, sources near the chief deny such a chance.
Supporters of Sudhakaran really feel that if he enters the fray, your complete situation will change and make it a high-voltage contest involving three high leaders within the state, as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and former BJP state president C Okay Padmanabhan have already began campaigning within the constituency. Sudhakaran himself has not responded to the queries of the media. In the 2016 meeting elections, Pinarayi had defeated Congress chief Mambaram Divakaran for a margin of 36,905 votes.
However, Sudhakaran supporters level out that within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Sudhakaran may cut back the margin within the meeting phase to round 4,000, which reveals that the constituency isn’t as unassailable for a Congress candidate because the CPM claims it to be. Earlier, Forward Block, an ally of UDF, determined to not subject its candidate in Dharmadom in opposition to Pinarayi. The occasion had requested the Congress management for an additional seat, however it was denied.
The Congress management additionally has to quell the interior dissidence over Sajeev Joseph’s candidature in Irikkur constituency, which has been an ‘A’ group fortress with Okay C Joseph profitable eight consecutive instances. His prospects have been dented with ‘A’ group leaders saying their resignation from the occasion posts. The disgruntled ‘A’ leaders have stated they’d steer clear of election work in all constituencies within the district.
It is learnt that A Okay Antony and Oommen Chandy known as Sony Sebastian, who was the ‘A’ group nominee, to assuage the sentiments of the enraged chief. People near Sony Sebastian stated he had expressed his robust resentment over the management’s resolution ignoring the favored sentiments of the employees within the constituency. On Tuesday, UDF convenor M M Hassan and sitting MLA Okay C Joseph will attain the constituency to have pacify the protesting ‘A’ group leaders.
