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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained power of the Palakkad municipality for a 3rd consecutive word by securing 25 of the 53 seats successful the municipal council.
The BJP secured 25 seats contempt facing its biggest-ever interior feud. In the outgoing council, the enactment held 28 seats, portion successful 2015, erstwhile it came to powerfulness for the archetypal time, it had secured 24 seats.
Though it fell abbreviated of a bulk by 2 seats, the BJP being the enactment with the maximum fig of councillors volition proceed to regularisation the municipality, arsenic the UDF secured lone 17 seats and the LDF eight. There Independents, including a UDF rebel, besides emerged victorious.
Any anticipation of the LDF supporting the UDF oregon the UDF accepting LDF backing to dislodge the BJP successful Palakkad appears highly improbable arsenic the 2 fronts are arch-rivals and specified an statement would contradict their stated governmental positions.
Seats won by BJP
The BJP won the Ayyapuram West, Kalpathy East, Thonippalayam, Kumarapuram, Mattumantha, Murukani, Puthur South, Puthur North, Sekharipuram, Ayyapuram East, Manappullikkavu, Koppam, Sulthanpetta, Mankavu, Kaikuthuparamba, Pattikkara, Vadakkanthara East, Selvapalayam, Kunnathurmedu South, Sreeramapalayam, Melamuri, Meparamba, Karnaginagar West, Vadakkanthara, and Jainamedu wards.
The UDF won the Olavakode Central, Kalpathy, Kunnumpuram, Kallepulli North, Kallepulli South, Narikuthi, Kunnathurmedu North, Chierakkadu, Kenathuparamba, Poolakkad, Vennakkara South, Vennakkara Central, Thirunellayi East, Thirunellayi West, Kallikkadu, Kottamaidanam, and Nurani wards.
The LDF won the Valiyapadam, Parakunnam, Vadakumuri, Civil Station, Murikavu, West Yakara, Yakara Central and the Othungode wards, portion Independents claimed the Vithunni, Pallipuram and Olavakode South wards.
Major wins
BJP State treasurer E. Krishnadas defeated UDF’s Vinod Pattikkara by 415 votes successful the Pattikkara ward. Mr. Krishnadas, a erstwhile BJP Palakkad territory president and the vice-chairperson of the outgoing municipal council, is being portrayed arsenic a beardown contender for the municipal chairperson’s post.
BJP territory caput P. Smithesh defeated Congress person K. Bhavadas successful the Murukani ward by 87 votes. In 2020, Mr. Bhavadas had won arsenic a UDF rebel.
The Congress is lamenting the nonaccomplishment of respective imaginable seats arsenic good arsenic cardinal leaders, including Mr. Bhavadas and P.V. Rajesh. In the Koppam ward, Mr. Rajesh was defeated by BJP’s M. Sasikumar by 54 votes. A erstwhile municipal chairman, Mr. Rajesh’s seniority and acquisition were considered by the the Congress portion fielding him.
The UDF cadres consciousness that allegations of intersexual maltreatment against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil negatively impacted the party’s prospects successful the municipality. Many neutral voters were reportedly swayed distant from the UDF owed to the contention surrounding the MLA. Moreover, respective Congress workers judge that if helium had worked with them portion maintaining a cleanable image, the UDF could person achieved amended results successful the municipality.
