Kerala Assembly polls: Silent campaign day in Adoor erupts into leaflet controversy, protests and arrests

Electioneering successful the Adoor Assembly constituency, which had mostly focused connected improvement issues until now, turned acrimonious each of a abrupt connected Wednesday, the time of the soundless campaign, triggering wide protests, arrests and the registration of cases against candidates from some the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF).

The contention began to unfold successful the greeting with C.V. Shanthakumar, the UDF candidate, lodging a ailment with the District Collector, accusing Communist Party of India (CPI) workers of distributing a leaflet. The pamphlet claimed Shanthakumar was the premier accused successful the Kalleli Ramachandran execution lawsuit of 2008. The LDF, however, denied immoderate engagement successful distributing the pamphlets.