K. Muraleedharan sees “strong pro-UDF wave”, expects coalition to win 55 seats in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation polls

Senior Congress person K. Muraleedharan connected Sunday claimed a beardown pro-United Democratic Front (UDF) question is evident crossed the State up of the section assemblage elections. Public sentiments, helium added, intelligibly indicated a tendency to bring the Congress-led conjugation backmost to power.

Lashing retired astatine the alleged administrative lapses of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) successful Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Mr. Muraleedharan besides accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of supporting corruption wrong the civilian body.

“BJP and CPI(M) person been functioning similar a associated unit successful the Corporation. UDF, connected the different hand, has raised respective pertinent issues astatine the council, contempt having a bladed spot of 10 councillors,” helium said, portion addressing media persons here.

Mr. Muraleedharan added that the CPI (M)’s determination not to tract the incumbent Mayor Arya Rajendran successful the predetermination campaign, and adjacent denying her a spot intelligibly indicated its governance failure. “In the erstwhile election, adjacent erstwhile the presumption (of Mayor) was reserved for women, the past sitting Mayor was fixed a ticket,” helium pointed out.

He expressed assurance that the UDF’s run and the prevailing governmental clime could assistance the conjugation triumph up to 55 seats. The CPI(M)’s run strategy, which mostly centred connected portraying itself arsenic the lone unit susceptible of countering the BJP, has failed this time, helium said.

The Congress person besides opined that the contention surrounding Palakkad MLA, Rahul Mamkootathil, who has been accused of intersexual assault, would not impact the UDF’s electoral imaginable “even by 1%”. “We person successfully exposed the Sabarimala golden misappropriation lawsuit and the administrative failures of the LDF government. We besides repeatedly highlighted corruption, nepotism and the LDF’s concealed knowing with the Centre passim this election,” Mr. Muraleedharan added.