Fronts swear by development plans to woo voters
The Hindu
A tough battle is on the cards in Irinjalakuda. A predominantly Christian belt, Irinjalakuda has stood with both the United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front. It had sent LDF Independent Lonappan Nambadan to the Assembly for four consecutive terms from 1982. However, UDF’s Thomas Unniyadan had won from the constituency in 2001, 2006, and 2011.
In the 2016 election, K.U. Arunan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated Mr. Unniyadan by 2,711 votes. But T.N. Prathapan of the Congress had secured a margin of 11,390 votes in the constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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