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A conception of Congress workers successful Thiruvananthapuram person raised beardown protests against the reported determination to tract erstwhile MP Ramya Haridas arsenic the party’s campaigner successful the Chirayinkeezhu Assembly constituency.
Criticising the effort to bring successful Ms. Haridas, who hails from Kozhikode, to contention successful Chirayinkeezhu, the protesters said that an “outsider” campaigner should not beryllium imposed connected the constituency. They demanded that the enactment see a campaigner from Thiruvananthapuram territory instead.
Several section leaders who were earlier portion of the imaginable campaigner database person reportedly submitted a ailment to the enactment cardinal enactment connected the issue.
They assertion 11 retired of the 14 ‘mandalam’ committee presidents successful the constituency, on with 3 District Congress Committee (DCC) wide secretaries, person formally registered their protestation against the determination to tract Ms. Haridas.
The protesters besides pointed retired that Chirayinkeezhu is simply a Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved constituency, with a ample colonisation of Dalit communities, including members of the Kerala Pulayar Mahasabha, Thandan and Paravan communities. These groups unneurotic relationship for astir 65,000 votes successful the constituency, they claimed, adding that ignoring section practice could weaken the party’s electoral prospects.
