Balussery sends Sachin Dev to Assembly
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In LDF fortress, the young candidate wins by whopping margin of 21,132 votes
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In LDF fortress, the young candidate wins by whopping margin of 21,132 votes K.M. Sachin Dev of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), one of the youngest candidates in the fray in the 2021 Assembly election, has retained Balussery, with a whopping margin of 20,372 votes. The State secretary of the Students’ Federation of India scored 91,839 votes of the total 1,82,253 polled in the constituency while his nearest opponent Dharmajan Bolgatty of the Indian National Congress scored 71,467 votes. Libin Bhaskar, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, scored 16,490 votes.
Kerala Assembly elections 2021 | Key winners and losers
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan greets party supporters during an election campaign ahead of Kerala Assembly Polls, in Thiruvananthapuram, Friday, March 26, 2021. File
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
The ruling Left Democratic Front, with a lead in 99 of 140 seats, has emerged as a decisive winner of 2021 Assembly elections. Congress-led United Democratic Front, which harboured ambitions of forming the government this round, was sidelined to a mere 41 seats, while BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has lost the one seat they had won in 2016 electi
Will Cong s Dharmajan make impact in Left stronghold Balusseri
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Will Cong s Dharmajan make impact in Left stronghold Balusseri. Image Source: IANS News
Dharmajan is a surprise candidate from the grand old party at the reserved for scheduled caste constituency under the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.
Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 (IANS) By choosing comedian Dharmajan Bolgatty the Congress wants to ensure a comfortable position at the Balusseri assembly constituency that has always been a Left stronghold.
Dharmajan is a surprise candidate from the grand old party at the reserved for scheduled caste constituency under the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.
In Balussery, only ‘socialist candidates’ make the grade
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Constituency elected A.C. Shanmughadas seven times
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Constituency elected A.C. Shanmughadas seven times
Balussery has been a socialist fortress, whichever front the winning candidate belonged to. The trend started with the socialists in the Congress but later shifted to the Left, as the socialists switched their allegiance to the LDF.
It is particularly noted for sending A.C. Shanmughadas to the Assembly for no less than seven times. He won as a Congress candidate in 1970. But in 1980, he was part of the socialist faction of the Congress which had joined the Left bandwagon. By 2001, the group had merged with the NCP. After Shanmughadas, A.K. Saseendran maintained the legacy for another term. But when the constituency was reserved for Scheduled Castes after the delimitation in 2010, the CPI(M) took over the seat from the NCP in exchange for the newly formed Elathur constituency. Since the
Regulator project to boost tourism, irrigation
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Minister opens Chittarikadavu regulator-cum-bridge; 35 more initiatives on anvil
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People s representatives and local body heads along with the public take a walk through the Chittarikadavu regulator-cum-bridge in Kozhikode on Wednesday.
Minister opens Chittarikadavu regulator-cum-bridge; 35 more initiatives on anvil
Minister for Water Resources K. Krishnankutty on Wednesday inaugurated the Chittarikadavu regulator-cum-bridge. The project, which is expected to give a boost to irrigation and tourism, was executed at a cost of ₹20.18 crore.
Opening the project through videoconferencing, Mr. Krishnankutty said the State government had accorded sanction to 35 projects under the Irrigation Department in Balussery and Koyilandy Assembly constituencies alone. “Of them, 19 were completed in time,” he added.