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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
