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Intensity on the hustings spills over to the thickly packed council hall
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Utmost safety: S. Jayachandran Nair (in protective gear), who won from the Kudappanakkunnu ward, takes oath as councillor in the council hall of the Corporation on Monday. The councillor has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
Intensity on the hustings spills over to the thickly packed council hall The spirit of a keenly contested local body election remained suspended in the air, as the otherwise solemn occasion of swearing in of new councillors in the city Corporation council hall on Monday was also noted for the competing sloganeering from supporters of the various parties in the thickly packed hall. While a majority of the hundred councillors solemnly affirmed or took oath in the name of God, six councillors deviated from the script and took oaths in name of specific gods, while an LDF councillor also used the occasion to raise a slogan in solidarity with the farmers’ pr