By Express News Service
KOCHI/KANNUR: The UDF has set its sights on a sizeable variety of BJP votes to drag off the Thalassery seat.
With the ballot panel rejecting the nomination papers of its candidate, BJP has introduced that it could help unbiased candidate COT Nazeer, a former CPM cadre, within the constituency.However, the UDF hopes the deep-rooted rivalry between the BJP and CPM will work in its favour.
The nomination papers of N Haridas, who can be the BJP Kannur district president, have been rejected after scrutiny citing technical causes.
Thalassery is a spot the place BJP has appreciable presence and its candidate V Okay Sajeevan garnered 22,125 votes within the 2016 meeting elections.
The space can be infamous for frequent clashes between the CPM and RSS.The UDF marketing campaign managers count on {that a} good majority of the BJP votes can be forged in favour of Congress candidate M P Aravindakshan.
“BJP leaders are antagonistic to the UDF because we had intervened to get the nomination papers rejected. We also have impleaded in the case filed by the BJP in the High Court,” stated an office-bearer of the UDF mandalam committee.
“But the party cadre are unlikely to heed to the leadership’s decision. Majority of them may vote for the UDF to express their anger against the CPM,” he stated.
The office-bearer added that Aravindakshan is an amiable individual and the individuals who don’t like LDF candidate A N Shamseer’s behaviour might select the Congress candidate.
Nazeer instructed TNIE that the folks of Thalassery have gotten a uncommon likelihood to assume past social gathering politics and make growth of the world the yardstick.
“I am a victim of the politics of violence and the peace-loving people of Thalassery will certainly elect me. The constituency has the tradition of electing people like Justice V R Krishna Iyer and the people wish to end the politics of hatred,” stated Nazeer.
“I will not say no to votes from any section of people. Even those in the CPM will vote for me this time. I was attacked for expressing my difference of opinion with the party,” stated Nazeer, who was with the CPM until a couple of years in the past.
Nazeer, who was an unbiased candidate for the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, was attacked shortly after the elections at Thalassery. He had alleged that Shamseer was behind the conspiracy to remove him.
O Okay Vasu, former BJP district president who joined the CPM in 2014, stated the rejection of nomination papers was a drama performed by the BJP to assist the UDF.
“It is unbelievable that the nomination papers of the BJP district president were rejected due to technical reasons. I was a candidate of the party, and we used to take extra care while filing papers. Usually, we seek the help of a lawyer to ensure that the papers are in order,” Vasu instructed TNIE.
Vasu, now a neighborhood committee member of CPM, alleged the plan could be to switch BJP votes to the UDF.
“But the CPM will win. The election results will reveal how BJP played the game,” stated Vasu, who’s campaigning for LDF candidates in Koothuparamba and Thalassery.
‘Disappearance’ of the candidate halfway by means of the marketing campaign has dampened the morale of BJP staff in Thalassery.
Most of them are actually specializing in the close by Dharmadom and Koothuparamba seats the place senior leaders of the social gathering are contesting.
