Alappuzha DCC president resigns
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Move comes in the wake of the defeat of the party in the Assembly polls
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Move comes in the wake of the defeat of the party in the Assembly polls
District Congress Committee (DCC) president M. Liju has resigned from the post in the wake of the heavy defeat of the party in the district in the Assembly polls.
Mr. Liju submitted his resignation letter to Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran on Monday. “I have tendered my resignation taking moral responsibility for the party’s debacle in the Assembly polls,” Mr. Liju said, adding that various factors had contributed to the Congress’s poor show in the district.
Warhorses forced to face new equations
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May 02, 2021 23:50 IST
Chandy’s victory margin plummets; P.C. George loses his fief; KC(M) gives up its prized possession, Pala
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Clad in a PPE kit, an LDF supporter celebrates in Kannur on Sunday. | Photo Credit:
S.K. Mohan
Chandy’s victory margin plummets; P.C. George loses his fief; KC(M) gives up its prized possession, Pala The Biblical saying, “For, what profits a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul” was in the air on Sunday when Kerala Congress (M), an ally of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) did reasonably well in the elections, but its supremo Jose K. Mani received a trouncing at the hands of Mani C. Kappan, sitting MLA, in Pala.
Women MLAs have never exceeded 10% of Kerala legislative Assembly in its 64-year political history. Kerala elected the highest number of women MLAs in 1996-13. Since 2001, this percentage has hovered around 5%, but in 1967 and 1977, only one woman was elected to the Kerala Vidhan Sabha. In large part, there are only a few women MLAs because political parties give a small number of tickets to women to contest elections. Although parties in all the three coalitions have increased the percentage of tickets given to women since 2001, the number has never exceeded 16% of total contesting candidates. In the last Assembly election held in 2016, the Communist Party of India gave 16% tickets to women, followed by CPI(M), which gave 14% tickets. Both the BJP and the Congress gave 10% of their tickets to women.
Kerala HC directs EC to examine possibility of webcasting in polling booths of Aroor constituency ANI | Updated: Apr 03, 2021 23:56 IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], April 3 (ANI): The Kerala High court has directed the Election Commission to examine whether it is possible to arrange webcasting in polling booths of Aroor constituency in Alappuzha district.
The court issued this directive while considering a petition filed by Shanimol Usman, Congress MLA from Aroor constituency. The plea sought webcasting in all 39 booths of the constituency.
In the petition, Usman said, I can bear the expense for webcasting, if necessary. Then the Election Commission informed the court that this cannot be allowed. Following this, the court directed the EC to consider webcasting in Aroor.
Petition filed by Shanimol seeking steps to curb double voting
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday informed the Kerala High Court that webcasting of the polling process has been arranged in 46% of the booths in the Aroor Assembly constituency to check double voting and other electoral malpractices.
The court made the submission when a writ petition filed by Shanimol Usman, the UDF candidate in the constituency, seeking a directive to webcast the polling process as many as 39 booths with multiple entries identified by her came up for hearing.
Justice N. Nagaresh, however, directed the ECI to consider whether the polling booths identified by the petitioner were figuring in the list of 46% polling booths and if those booths were not included in the 46% booths, the ECI should consider the feasibility of webcasting or videographing the election process in such polling booths.