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Congress subordinate and Agali panchayat president N.K. Manju resigned from the station connected Monday morning, conscionable 2 days aft assuming bureau with the enactment of the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Elected from Chinnaparamba ward (No. 20) of Agali panchayat connected the Congress symbol, Ms. Manju became president connected Saturday with the enactment of 9 LDF members, drafting the ire of the United Democratic Front (UDF).
On Monday morning, she became the archetypal civic assemblage president successful the State to measurement down aft the Congress decided to initiate ineligible proceedings against her nether the anti-defection law.
The Congress has already approached the State Election Commission (SEC) seeking her disqualification.
Soon aft her resignation, Ms. Manju said she would proceed arsenic a Congress worker. She said that LDF members had supported her erstwhile her sanction was projected for the president’s post, and that she did not privation that support.
Earlier, Ms. Manju had maintained that she was not issued immoderate enactment whip and that she secured votes successful the panchayat president’s predetermination crossed enactment lines.
Agali panchayat successful Attappady was with the LDF for the past 10 years. In the caller elections, UDF secured 10 seats erstwhile the LDF got 9 and the BJP two.
The UDF had decided to nominate Sibu Cyriac for the president’s post, but the program was upset erstwhile Ms. Manju was elected with LDF support, prompting the Congress to attack the SEC seeking her disqualification nether the anti-defection law.
