With a comfortable win, UDF has a smooth road ahead in Kalamassery

Senior Congress person Jamal Manakkadan seems to beryllium the lone prime of the Congress for the station of chairperson of the Kalamassery municipality aft the United Democratic Front (UDF) registered an awesome triumph successful the section assemblage elections successful the 46-member civic body.

Mr. Manakkadan, a erstwhile chairperson, had won the Vattekunnam ward with a bulk of 17 votes this time. The Congress parliamentary enactment has astir confirmed his candidature for the station of chairperson aft the UDF defeated the Left Democratic Front (LDF) successful the section assemblage elections by securing triumph successful 30 of the full 46 wards. Najeeb Kalamassery, president of the Congress party’s mandalam committee successful Kalamassery, said that Mr. Manakkadan would pb the ruling assembly aft the Congress-led UDF came up with a bully show successful the section assemblage polls. He said that the station of lawman chairperson would beryllium fixed to the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) arsenic portion of an knowing wrong the front.

P.M.A. Latheef, president of the IUML’s Kalamassery Town Committee, said that they were considering Shanida Siddique and Shareena Kamaruddin for the station of lawman chairperson. A last determination would beryllium taken soon, helium said. Ms. Siddique had won the Mini municipality hallway ward with a bulk of 131 votes. Ms. Kamaruddin had won the municipal ward with a bulk of 29 votes.

The predetermination to the station of chairperson is expected to beryllium smooth, arsenic the UDF enjoys a bulk successful the council, portion the LDF could negociate lone 13 wards successful the polls. It had a full spot of 20 councillors aft the section assemblage elections held successful 2020. Luck had favoured the UDF past clip aft Seema Kannan, Congress councillor, was chosen arsenic chairperson done a gully of lots.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance was incapable to amended upon its show successful the polls, settling for a azygous triumph aft retaining the Thrikkakara temple ward with a bulk of 11 votes.