Congress eyes minority, impartial votes in Chelakkara

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress leadership hopes to garner minority and impartial votes in the Chelakkara and Palakkad Assembly by-election seats.

The Congress votes alone will not help the two candidates, Ramya Haridas and Shafi Parambil respectively to win, this puts the minority and impartial votes crucial for them.

During the 2021 Assembly election, sitting Congress MLA Shafi Parambil won in Palakkad against BJP’s E Sreedharan by a narrow margin of 3859 votes. When the impartial votes favoured metroman Sreedharan, the minority vote consolidation helped Shafi to romp home with a hat trick win from Palakkad.