Keen contest in Ward 11 of Kalamassery municipality

Ward 11 successful Kalamassery municipality is witnessing an absorbing contention this time.

Seema Kannan, outgoing chairperson of the Congress, is taking connected Sheeba Babu of the Communist Party of India (CPI) successful a consecutive contention betwixt the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not portion of the battle, arsenic the information of its campaigner was rejected for not submitting the connection of expenditure of the section assemblage predetermination successful 2020, successful which she was a candidate.

Ms. Kannan exuded assurance successful overcoming immoderate chances of anti-incumbency arsenic the UDF has been successful powerfulness successful the municipality for astir 3 decades. “The UDF was capable to amended infrastructure facilities successful the municipality,” she claimed.

She had assumed the station of chairperson successful a melodramatic crook of events successful 2020 aft the UDF and the LDF were tied astatine 20 seats each successful the 42-member council. She was chosen done a gully of tons arsenic the UDF came to powerfulness amid a wafer-thin bulk with the enactment of Independents. She had survived a no-confidence question moved by the Opposition successful December 2022 for privation of the required fig of votes to oust her.

Ms. Babu, who is the section committee subordinate of the CPI, said she remained hopeful of securing a triumph this time. She added that the enactment done by the LDF successful the ward, on with the improvement projects initiated by the State government, would interaction the last outcome. “We person been highlighting the improvement plank successful the campaign,” she said.

The BJP suffered a setback aft the information of its candidate, Prajeela Suresh, was rejected during scrutiny connected the grounds that she did not taxable the connection of expenditure of the erstwhile election. The enactment had faced a akin concern successful Ward 1 aft the information of its candidate, Dilsha Biju, was rejected, aft it was recovered that the idiosyncratic who had seconded her candidature was a elector extracurricular the division.