
IUML nominates Independent in Perambra
The Hindu
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has nominated an Independent, C.H. Ibrahim Kutty, an NRI businessman, philanthropist and social activist, to contest from the Perambra Assembly segment.
His candidature was announced by party State president Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal. Mr. Kutty was considered after the local leaders of the party recommended his name in Perambra. However, the imbroglio over the Perambra seat in the Congress party remained unsolved with local leaders planning to field a rebel candidate. These leaders have been opposing the decision of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) to offer the seat to the IUML under the seat-sharing arrangement in the United Democratic Front (UDF)
Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












