Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: Unlike within the parliament elections, the district has all the time proven a leaning in the direction of the Left entrance in meeting polls since 1996. And the Congress doesn’t have an MLA from the district for twenty years. The LDF would have been in a disastrous place this time had KC(M) Jose Ok Mani faction not given up Kuttiyadi seat to CPM. If KC(M) had contested right here, the possibilities of LDF in Kuttiyadi in addition to in neighbouring Nadapuram and Perambra would have been dented.
Going by the candidate choice and electioneering, it appears UDF is more likely to higher its place this time than 2016 when it may win solely two out of 13 seats. Among the seats, LDF seems snug in Perambra, Elathur, Balussery, Beypore and Kunnamangalam — its sitting seats. In Vadakara and Kozhikode South, UDF has an edge, although Vadakara is LDF’s sitting seat. Koduvally, the place IUML has fielded M Ok Muneer to wrest the seat, is witnessing a decent contest.
Kozhikode North, an LDF sitting seat, and Kuttiyadi, a purple fortress wrested by UDF in 2016, are witnessing a neck-and-neck battle. The scenario is unpredictable in Koyilandy, Nadapuram and Thiruvambady — all sitting seats of the LDF. UDF candidate and actor Dharmajan Bolgatty is giving a troublesome battle to the Left candidate in Balussery.
There has additionally been a robust anti-incumbency in opposition to A Ok Saseendran in Elathur, however UDF failed miserably to subject a robust candidate. Sulfikar Mayoori of NCK (Mani C Kappan) is the UDF candidate. Independent candidate backed by IUML C H Ibrahim Kutty is pitted in opposition to Labour Minister and sitting MLA TP Ramakrishnan in Perambra.
