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Defying a long-standing governmental signifier successful the district, the United Democratic Front (UDF) has scored a decisive breakthrough successful Pathanamthitta, wresting power of the territory panchayat and a bulk of section bodies from the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
The Congress-led coalition, carrying guardant its momentum from past year’s Lok Sabha elections, has won a wide bulk successful the territory panchayat, too securing power of 34 grama panchayats and 7 artifact panchayats. The UDF besides registered important gains successful the municipal conception winning 3 municipalities, including 2 that were earlier held by the LDF.
In the 16-member territory panchayat, the UDF won a comfy bulk with 12 seats, portion the LDF’s tally fell sharply to 5 from 12 successful the erstwhile election. Among the notable winners was Sreenadevi Kunjamma, who switched allegiance from the Communist Party of India (CPI) to the Congress astatine the eleventh hr and contested arsenic a UDF campaigner from the Pallickal division.
Pandalam with LDF
Of the 4 municipalities successful the district, the UDF emerged up successful Pathanamthitta, Thiruvalla and Adoor. However, successful Thiruvalla, the conjugation fell abbreviated of securing a wide majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (BJP-NDA), meanwhile, mislaid the Pandalam municipality wherever it had created past successful 2020 by winning a elemental majority. This time, the LDF took the pb with 14 seats, intimately followed by the UDF with 11, portion the NDA was restricted to 9 seats.
At the aforesaid time, the NDA enactment up a beardown show successful the Thiruvalla municipality, winning 7 seats.
In the grama panchayat segment, the UDF won 34 of the 53 panchayats successful the district, a crisp emergence from its erstwhile tally. The LDF was confined to 11 panchayats, down from 23 past time, portion the NDA emerged victorious successful four. The remaining 4 panchayats returned a hung verdict.
The UDF besides tightened its grip connected the artifact panchayats, winning 7 of the 8 blocks successful the district, with Konni being the lone exception. The LDF retained lone 1 artifact panchayat.
The BJP won six seats overall, including 3 successful Pandalam and 1 each successful Mallappally, Koipuram and Parakkodu, isolated from securing 125 grama panchayat wards crossed the district.
