KOTTAYAM: The people of Puthuppally paid their last respects to their beloved leader Oommen Chandy. In the first by-election held in Kerala’s Puthuppally Assembly constituency following the demise of Oommen Chandy, his son and UDF candidate Chandy Oommen recorded a humongous victory with a record margin of 37,719 votes. In a keenly watched electoral battle ahead of the Lok Sabha …
Even as development emerged a major poll plank in the final stages of the campaign for the byelection to the Puthuppally Assembly Constituency, the major political fronts continued to accuse each other of running a highly recriminatory campaign. Satheesan accused the Communist Party of India of personally targeting the family members of the former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the Left …
Jaick C.Thomas, the candidate fielded by the Left Democratic Front for the upcoming by-election at Puthuppally, filed his nomination papers on Wednesday. Accompanied by an LDF delegation, Mr. Thomas submitted the nomination to the returning officer and Kottayam Revenue Divisional Officer Vinod Raj. Binu, Kerala Congress district president Lopez Mathew, and NCP State organisation general secretary K.R. According to an …
With a charged-up Left Democratic Front looking to dent the political hegemony of the Congress, the battle lines for a gritty contest have been drawn in Puthuppally, which looks set to elect the successor to its legislator of five decades and Congress leader Oommen Chandy. Having activated the organisational framework at the grassroots, the LDF on Friday hit the ground …
