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While the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is celebrating the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s sweeping triumph crossed the territory successful the civic assemblage elections, the results successful Ponmundam panchayat person been disappointing for the party.
In Ponmundam, the IUML had gone head-to-head against an confederation of the Congress, CPI(M) and respective different parties. The contention proved disastrous for the IUML, with respective of its cardinal candidates losing to the formidable Janakeeya Munnani. And the enactment mislaid the panchayat to the Congress-CPI(M) aft galore years.
The Janakeeya Munnani wrested power of the panchayat from the IUML by winning 13 of the 18 seats, portion the IUML managed to unafraid 4 seats and its ally, the Welfare Party of India, took one.
Neither the UDF nor the Left Democratic Front (LDF) contested successful Ponmundam. The conflict was fundamentally betwixt the IUML and a conjugation of different parties. However, the Election Commission has mentioned UDF for the IUML.
The Congress enactment had dissolved its panchayat committee successful Ponmundam aft failing to scope an knowing with the IUML successful the panchayat. The deadlock, however, cannot beryllium blamed connected either the Congress oregon the IUML, arsenic it was a long-standing impasse.
While the Ponmundam panchayat elections successful 2010, 2015 and 2020 saw a triangular contention betwixt the Congress, IUML and LDF, this clip the conflict was a consecutive combat betwixt the IUML and a Congress-CPI(M) alliance.
IUML leaders acknowledged that they had done their champion to withstand the almighty surge generated by the Janakeeya Munnani, but yet fell short. In the outcome, the Congress secured 10 seats, portion the CPI(M) claimed three.
“We did not expect specified a defeat. Several of our cardinal leaders were unseated, and it was peculiarly disheartening to suffer wards wherever we were assured of victory,” said Kundil Hajara, the outgoing president of Ponmundam panchayat.
