LDF will return to power for a third consecutive term with more than 90 seats, says M.V. Govindan

Expressing assurance that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would travel backmost to powerfulness for an unprecedented 3rd word by winning implicit 90 seats, Communist Party of India (Marxist) State caput M.V. Govindan said the speculation astir precocious polling percentages successful the Assembly elections was baseless. Addressing a property league astatine the AKG Centre present connected Sunday, helium said that the incumbent MLAs of the LDF would look victorious arsenic the voters had shown an aggravated privation for continuity.

Mr. Govindan refuted the speculation that a precocious polling percent successful the Assembly elections mightiness beryllium an indicator of a alteration successful government. “The United Democratic Front (UDF) arsenic good arsenic sections of the media person been attempting to make an content that a higher polling percent is impervious of anti-incumbency. However, if you comparison the elector numbers with erstwhile elections, you volition realise that this assertion is baseless. Compared to the 2021 Assembly elections, the fig of voters has reduced considerably aft the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful 94 constituencies. Out of this reduced number, 78.27% voters formed their votes. The polling was little successful 71 constituencies compared to 2021,” said Mr. Govindan.