Nilambur bypoll: P.V. Anvar kicks up fresh row by refusing to embrace UDF candidate Shoukath on poll day

Nilambur bypoll: P.V. Anvar kicks up fresh row by refusing to embrace UDF candidate Shoukath on poll day

P.V. Anvar | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah P.V. Anvar, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) Kerala State convener who is contesting the byelection in Nilambur as an Independent, kicked up a row by refusing to embrace United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Aryadan Shoukath when they met at a polling station at Nilambur on Thursday (June […]

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Nilambur bypoll in Kerala: Opposition UDF accuses LDF of stoking Islamophobia for Sangh Parivar votes

Nilambur bypoll in Kerala: Opposition UDF accuses LDF of stoking Islamophobia for Sangh Parivar votes

Kerala Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) accused the Left Democratic Front (LDF) campaign of stoking Islamophobia to consolidate its position among Sangh Parivar and hardline groups hailing from the other minority communities in the high-stakes Nilambur Assembly […]

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Nilambur bypoll: Welfare Party of India’s support for UDF sparks political row over alliances with ‘communal forces’

Nilambur bypoll: Welfare Party of India’s support for UDF sparks political row over alliances with ‘communal forces’

M.V. Govindan, CPI(M) Kerala State secretary (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Welfare Party of India’s (WPI) declaration of support for the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) in the high-stakes Nilambur Assembly byelection in Kerala has sparked off a political slugfest between the opposing campaigns over the touchy question of “courting communal forces for electoral […]

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Nilambur bypoll in Kerala: CPI(M) nominates M. Swaraj as LDF candidate

Nilambur bypoll in Kerala: CPI(M) nominates M. Swaraj as LDF candidate

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat in Kerala has nominated M. Swaraj as the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) candidate in the Nilambur Assembly byelection.  CPI(M) State secretary M. V. Govindan told a press conference here on Friday that Mr. Swaraj, a party State secretariat member, was a native of Nilambur with profound […]

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Nilambur by-elections: A significant ballot box test for LDF and UDF  on June 19

Nilambur by-elections: A significant ballot box test for LDF and UDF on June 19

The resignation of LDF independent legislator P.V. Anvar triggered the by-election. Anvar, who joined the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) after his acrimonious break-up with the LDF, has declared unconditional support for the UDF. File. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN The ruling front and opposition will face their arguably most significant ballot box test ahead […]

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