Kerala Assembly Elections | Congress, BJP announce candidates
The Hindu
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have announced their list of candidates for the Assembly election in Kerala.
The Congress will contest 92 of the 140 seats. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran announced the list of candidates for 86 constituencies. The names for Kalpetta, Nilambur, Vattiyurkavu, Kundara, Thavanur and Pattambi are pending AICC clearance.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.