Alappuzha Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is shut to the CPI (M) in multiple methods, because it’s the one seat of the 20 in Kerala that the Left gained within the 2019 polls.
After their sitting member, AM Ariff was requested to retain his seat and hit the marketing campaign path, got here the information that AICC General Secretary, KC Venugopal, will return to Alappuzha to battle for the Lok Sabha seat which he gained in 2009 and 2014, apart from profitable the Alappuzha Assembly constituency thrice, beginning in 1996.
The BJP has additionally introduced in its veteran firebrand chief Sobha Surendran, making it a triangular ballot battle.
Alappuzha can be thought of the second-biggest bastion of the CPI(M) after Kannur and the constituency has a sizeable quantity of the working class because the district is understood for paddy cultivation and in addition the coir business.
Besides the CPI(M)-led Left has gained 5 of the seven Assembly segments.
Congress candidate KC Venugopal
Though senior chief Venugopal isn’t any stranger to the constituency, it was veteran Congress legislator, Ramesh Chennithala, who insisted that Venugopal ought to contest from Alappuzha and promised to oversee your entire election marketing campaign because the AICC General Secretary might need to spend time away from the constituency on account of the publish he holds.
Hence, senior chief Chennithala is overseeing the marketing campaign and has entrusted the day by day marketing campaign programme to two veterans, KC Joseph of the Congress and CP John, who leads the CMP, an ally of the Congress within the United Democratic Front (UDF).
What occurred in 2019 polls? Here are outcomes
In the Lok Sabha 2019 polls, AM Ariff gained by defeating Congress chief Shanimol Usman by a margin of simply 10,474 votes, which turned out to be the bottom victory margin within the state in these elections.
With Venugopal within the fray, high nationwide Congress leaders are anticipated to arrive for campaigning, and it will be the identical for the BJP too, turning Alappuzha right into a high-profile constituency. Venugopal, a sitting Rajya Sabha member with two extra years to go, determined to contest the Alappuzha seat, which he gained in 2009 and 2014.
KC Venugopal information nomination
Congress chief KC Venugopal filed his nomination on April 4 from Alappuzha constituency in Kerala for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections to be held in seven phases throughout the nation starting April 19.
Triangular contest in Alappuzha
The Alappuzha parliamentary seat is about to witness a ‘three-cornered battle’ with candidates of the BJP, Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) within the fray for the upcoming polls. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) gained one seat in Alappuzha within the 2019 elections.
This time, the Congress common secretary is pitted towards BJP’s Sobha Surendran and CPI (Marxist) AM Ariff who’s the incumbent MP from the constituency.
Sobha Surendran filed her nomination on April 3.
Alappuzha seat political historical past
Venugopal had gained the constituency in 2014 and the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In 2004, the Communist Party of India candidate KS Manoj had gained the seat. Congress’s VM Sudheeran had gained three consecutive elections- 1996, 1998 and 1999. In the 12 months 1991 CPI’s T J Anjalose gained the seat. In the 1984 and in 1989 Congress candidate Vakkom Purushothaman had gained.
This parliamentary constituency consists of seven Assembly segments- Aroor, Cherthala, Alappuzha, Ambalappuzha, Haripad, Kayamkulam, and Karunagappalli. The CPI and the Congress, companions within the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc are nevertheless, fierce contenders in Kerala, with each events pitting their strongest candidates towards one another. Kerala, one of the few states the place the Congress nonetheless has a powerful presence, sends 20 parliamentarians to the Lok Sabha.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) gained 19 out of 20 seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. While the Congress gained 15 seats, its allies Indian Union Muslim League gained two seats, the Revolutionary Socialist Party gained one and the Kerala Congress (M) gained one seat. Voting for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections within the South Indian state throughout all 20 seats is scheduled for April 26, whereas the counting of votes will happen on June 4.
