Local body wants helipads dismantled
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‘Cost of restoring Pathanamthitta stadium must be borne by BJP’
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‘Cost of restoring Pathanamthitta stadium must be borne by BJP’
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pathanamthitta, a perceived delay in dismantling the temporary helipads set up at the Municipal stadium to facilitate his arrival here has kicked up a row with the civic body seeking urgent intervention of the district administration. T. Zakir Hussain, chairman, Pathanamthitta municipality, said a note had been handed over to the district administration seeking its intervention in restoring the multi-sports arena by dismantling the three helipads. The cost of the restoration works, according to him, should be borne by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had organised the Prime Minister’s event.
Parties keep fingers crossed
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Fall in poll percentage keeps rival fronts guessing in Pathanamthitta
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Fall in poll percentage keeps rival fronts guessing in Pathanamthitta
The overall polling percentage reported by Pathanamthitta, which came down from 71.66 in 2016 to 67.18 this time, has got political rivals - United Democratic Front, Left Democratic Front and the National Democratic Alliance - guessing its ramifications on the poll prospects.
While each side is trying to claim that their voters have turned out, there exists a school of thought that the falling polling percentage was indicative of the deep-seated public disengagement from politics.
The BJP’s attempt to field the first MBA graduate from the Paniya tribal community in Mananthavady has failed with the candidate turning down the offer saying he had already told the party he was not keen on contesting.
C. Manikandan, 31, who works as a teaching assistant at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Wayanad, and is not even a primary member of the party, refused to take the field after finding his name in the BJP’s list of candidates announced on Sunday for the Assembly elections.
“Some local BJP leaders had called me on phone three weeks ago to ask me if I was interested in contesting. But I had clearly told them that I was not inclined to contest as I am not even a BJP sympathiser,” he told