P.V. Abdul Wahab, Brittas and Sivadasan elected to RS from Kerala
The three fresh vacancies arose as the tenure of Congress veteran Vayalar Ravi, Indian Union Muslim League leader Abdul Wahab and CPI-M leader K.K. Raghesh ended on April 21
Friday April 23, 2021 7:51 PM, IANS
Thiruvananthapuram: The three candidates in the fray to the three Rajya Sabha seats that fell vacant from Kerala were declared elected by Assembly Secretary S.V. Unnikrishnan Nair on Friday.
The three are Indian Union Muslim League leader P.V. Abdul Wahab who was renominated by his party, while the other two, backed by the ruling CPI-M, are new faces - John Brittas, the Managing Director of of the party-backed Kairali TV channel, and V. Sivadasan.
Controversies dog CPI(M) Alappuzha unit
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Kerala: Abhimanyu, a native of Padayanivettom, was stabbed to death in Alappuzha on Wednesday night. Kerala: CPM claims RSS behind Class X student Abhimanyu’s murder | Photo Credit: Twitter
Thiruvananthapuram: The murder of a 15-year-old school student during the Padayanivettom temple festival at Vallikunnam in Kerala’s Alappuzha district has snowballed into a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Abhimanyu, the Class X student, was stabbed to death during an altercation between two groups on Wednesday night.
As per the CPI(M), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was behind the murder of Abhimanyu, who was reportedly a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist. “It was a clear political murder,” said CPI(M) Alappuzha district secretary R Nazar.