Counting begins for Kerala by-polls
Thursday - May 31, 2018 8:48 am ,
Category : INDIA
Chengannur (Kerala) May 31 (IANS) Counting of votes began on Thursday for the by-polls of the Chengannur Assembly seat in Kerala.
Following a postal strike only 12 postal votes was counted out of some 900 ballots. A total of 76.25 per cent of the electorate in the constituency voted besides 228 NRI voters. The by-polls for the Chengannur Assembly seat was necessitated following the death of CPI-M legislator K.K. Ramachandran Nair in January. While the CPI-M decided to field district party secretary of Alappuzha Saji Cherian the Congress has brought in D. Vijayakumar a party veteran from Chengannur. BJP sought its former state Party president P.S. Sreedharan Pillai to contest the by-polls.
--IANS sg/ksk
Following a postal strike only 12 postal votes was counted out of some 900 ballots. A total of 76.25 per cent of the electorate in the constituency voted besides 228 NRI voters. The by-polls for the Chengannur Assembly seat was necessitated following the death of CPI-M legislator K.K. Ramachandran Nair in January. While the CPI-M decided to field district party secretary of Alappuzha Saji Cherian the Congress has brought in D. Vijayakumar a party veteran from Chengannur. BJP sought its former state Party president P.S. Sreedharan Pillai to contest the by-polls.
--IANS sg/ksk
