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The rejection of information papers of aspiring candidates for the section assemblage elections has caused heartbreak for governmental parties successful the district.
The Congress has taken the biggest deed successful the district, with 4 of its authoritative candidates losing the accidental to contention aft errors were recovered successful their information papers.
Congress nominees Elsy George, Kadamakudy part of the Ernakulam territory panchayat, Sareena Shaji and Johnson Punathil, Manakkapady and Varapuzha divisions of the Alangad artifact panchayat, and Praveena Ajith, Pattupurackal ward of the Thrikkakara municipality, were removed from the contention aft officials recovered faults successful their information papers connected Saturday (November 22, 2025).
The rejection of Ms. George’s nomination, who serves arsenic the vice chairperson successful the outgoing territory panchayat council, has dealt a large stroke to the Congress, leaving the enactment without a campaigner successful the recently created Kadamakudy part wherever it had expected an casual win. The enactment had not fielded a dummy campaigner successful the division.
In Manakkapady, the Congress has nary alternate campaigner aft Ms. Shaji’s information was rejected. Denny Joseph Punathil, who had been fielded arsenic a dummy candidate, volition present beryllium the party’s authoritative nominee successful Varapuzha.
In the Pattupurackal ward of Thrikkakara, the Congress was forced to endorse the candidature of rebel person Liji Suresh. Ms. Suresh, territory wide caput of the Mahila Congress and a councillor successful the outgoing council, had filed her information arsenic an Independent aft the enactment chose newcomer Ms. Ajith, whose papers were aboriginal rejected.
The nominations of CPI(M)’s K.K. Santhosh, Kannankery ward, and BJP’s K.K. Sajayan, Thoppil North ward, were besides rejected successful the Thrikkakara municipality aft it was recovered that the candidates had failed to motion their information forms.
While the CPI(M)’s dummy campaigner Prasad K.K. saved the time for the enactment successful Kannankery, the BJP has been near without a campaigner successful Thoppil North. A akin concern has unfolded for the BJP successful the Glass Factory Nagar and Pipeline wards of the Kalamassery municipality, wherever the nominations of enactment candidates Dilsha Biju and Prajeela Suresh, respectively, were rejected. The information of the BJP’s campaigner successful the Ambalamedu part of the Vadavucode artifact panchayat K.S. Giridasan was besides rejected.
District Congress Committee (DCC) president Muhammed Shiyas connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) reiterated that predetermination officials colluded with the ruling LDF to cull the party’s candidates’ nominations. He said Ms. George was not fixed a accidental to record different information earlier the deadline.
Ms. Shaji’s information was rejected connected the grounds that she was an worker of the State-run Khadi Board. Mr. Shiyas said she was lone a part-time idiosyncratic astatine the Karumaloor portion of the board. “Five radical engaged successful akin enactment are contesting the elections successful Kannur and Kasaragod districts,” helium added.
He said the Congress volition record a petition seeking the removal of Maja Jose, a fisheries section official, from the station of returning serviceman of the Alangad artifact panchayat.
CPI(M) territory caput S. Satheesh, meanwhile, said the rejection of nominations has exposed the existent authorities of the Congress, which failed to tract dummy candidates and travel basal rules portion filling retired information forms. According to authoritative figures released connected Sunday, a full of 404 nominations were rejected successful the district.
