Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Congress announces first list of 55 candidates, yet to take a call on MPs wishing to contest

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Forty-eight hours aft the Election Commission of India announced the docket for the Assembly elections successful Kerala, the Congress enactment announced its candidates for 55 seats connected Tuesday.

On MPs contesting

All India Congress Committee wide caput (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal announced the database successful the evening aft respective hours of hectic talks, particularly regarding the demands of immoderate incumbent MPs who person expressed the tendency to contest.

Notably, the enactment has not yet named candidates for the Kannur and Konni seats for which MPs K. Sudhakaran and Adoor Prakash respectively raised demands. Mr. Venugopal said that the enactment would instrumentality a determination connected MPs wanting to contention later.

The archetypal database announced by the Congress, which is expected to contention successful a mates of seats much than the 93 it contested successful 2021, includes 20 incumbent MLAs.

Key contestants

Among the salient faces connected the database are Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan from the Paravur constituency, erstwhile Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala from Haripad, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph from Peravur, erstwhile MP K. Muraleedharan from Vattiyurkavu, erstwhile MP T.N. Prathapan from Manalur, T. Siddique from Kalpetta, Chandy Oommen from Puthuppally and M. Vincent from Kovalam.

The different incumbent MLAs who are contesting see Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Sajeev Joseph, I.C. Balakrishnan, Aryadan Shoukath, A.P. Anil Kumar, Saneesh Kumar Joseph, Roji M. John, Anwar Sadath, T.J. Vinod, Uma Thomas, V.P. Sajeendran, Mathew Kuzhalnadan, C.R. Mahesh and P.C. Vishnunadh. Former MLA V.T. Balram, who mislaid successful Thrithala successful 2021, has been fielded again from the constituency. Among the salient caller faces is Youth Congress president O.J. Janeesh, who volition contention from Kodungalloor.

A. Suresh, a idiosyncratic adjunct to the erstwhile Chief Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person V.S. Achuthanandan, has been fielded from Malampuzha. Mr. Suresh formally joined the Congress enactment connected Tuesday, aft accusing the CPI(M) of having mislaid its ideological character. Former CPI(M) MLA P. Aisha Potty who joined the Congress fewer weeks agone has been fielded from Kottarakara, which she represented for 3 consecutive terms.

Actor Ramesh Pisharody has been fielded from the Palakkad constituency, which was antecedently won by Rahul Mamkootathil, who was suspended from the Congress enactment pursuing rape allegations.

Former MP Ramya Haridas has been fielded from the Chirayinkeezhu constituency contempt beardown protests against her candidature from a conception of Congress workers successful Thiruvananthapuram.

Full database of candidates

Kannur

Irikkur — Sajeev Joseph

Dharmadam — Abdul Rasheed

Thalassery — K.P. Saju

Peravur — Sunny Joseph

Wayanad

Mananthavady — Usha Vijayan

Sulthan Bathery — I.C. Balakrishnan

Kalpetta — T. Siddique

Kozhikode

Nadapuram — K.M. Abhijith

Koyilandy — K. Praveen Kumar

Balussery — V.T. Sooraj

Elathur — Vidhya Balakrishnan

Kozhikode North — K. Jayanth

Malappuram

Nilambur — Aryadan Shoukath

Wandoor — A.P. Anil Kumar

Tavanur — V.S. Joy

Ponnani — Noushad Ali

Palakkad

Thrithala — V.T. Balram

Kongad — K.A. Tulsi

Malampuzha — A. Suresh

Palakkad — Ramesh Pisharody

Tharoor — K.C. Subramanian

Chittur — Sumesh Achuthan

Nenmara —T. Thankappan

Alathur — K.N. Febin

Thrissur

Manalur — T.N. Prathapan

Ollur — Shaji J. Kodankandath

Thrissur — Rajan J. Pallan

Nattika — Sunil Laloor

Kaipamangalam — T.M. Nazar

Puthukkad — K.M. Babu Raj

Chalakudy — Saneesh Kumar Joseph

Kodungalloor — O.J. Janeesh

Ernakulam

Angamaly — Roji M. John

Aluva — Anwar Sadath

Paravur — V.D. Satheesan

Ernakulam — T.J. Vinod

Thrikkakara — Uma Thomas

Kunnathunad — V.P. Sajeendran

Muvattupuzha — Mathew Kuzhalnadan

Kottayam

Vaikom — K. Binimon

Kottayam — Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan

Puthuppally — Chandy Oommen

Alappuzha

Aroor — Shanimol Usman

Cherthala — K.R. Rajendra Prasad

Haripad — Ramesh Chennithala

Mavelikara — Muthara Raj

Kollam

Karunagappally — C.R. Mahesh

Kottarakara — P. Aisha Potty

Pathanapuram — Jyothikumar Chamakkala

Kundara — P.C. Vishnunadh

Kollam — Bindhu Krishna

Chathannur — Sooraj Ravi

Thiruvananthapuram

Chirayinkeezhu — Ramya Haridas

Vattiyurkavu — K. Muraleedharan

Kovalam — M. Vincent

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