Following Lourdammal Simon’s footsteps, Cuthbert enters poll fray in Colachel

After a spread of astir 64 years, the INC enactment has fielded Tharahai Cuthbert arsenic its 2nd pistillate campaigner to contention from Colachel Assembly constituency. She follows the footsteps of precocious Indian National Congress (INC) person Lourdammal Simon, who had contested from this segment.

Ms. Simon, who won successful 1957 elections from the constituency, went connected to go the State’s archetypal pistillate curate to beryllium inducted into the Cabinet of precocious Chief Minister K. Kamaraj. She served arsenic the Minister of Local Administration and Fisheries.