Thiruvananthapuram: There will probably be a battle between three seasoned political veterans from three completely different political fronts within the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.
The Congress has requested its skilled sitting member MK Raghavan, who accomplished a hat-trick from the constituency in 2019, to defend the seat; And contesting him is the versatile CPI-M's present Rajya Sabha member and commerce union chief Elamaram Karim.
The BJP has introduced again its stalwart MT Ramesh, who returned after his failed try in 2004.
Raghavan confronted some shut ends in his first election, however his victory margin elevated from simply 838 votes in 2009 to 16,883 votes in 2014 and in 2019 he gained by a cushty margin of 85,225 votes.
This time, it stays to be seen how his get together cadre will react as he was the closest aide when Shashi Tharoor surprisingly contested the election for the put up of get together president and misplaced.
Kareem, hails from the constituency and is a well-liked face after serving a number of phrases within the Kerala Meeting. He had additionally as soon as been the state's Industries Minister.
One other benefit on paper for Karim is that out of the seven meeting constituencies in Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency within the 2021 meeting elections, the ruling Left had gained 5 and the Congress-led UDF had gained two.
Leader Ramesh, who’s extraordinarily common particularly amongst RSS employees, has returned to the electoral fray after a spot of twenty years. In 2004 he acquired greater than 97,000 votes.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the then BJP candidate bought 1,61,216 votes.
With numerous Muslim voters and now with the implementation of CAA, all eyes are on Kozhikode, ready to see which method the Muslim votes go and whether or not Ramesh manages to extend the BJP vote depend .
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