With memories of last year's devastating floods still fresh in the minds of people of Kerala, they want the issue of climate change to be a dominant theme of the electoral discourse in the run-up to Lok Sabha polls beginning April 11.
A total of 483 people died in the August 2018 floods, which were the state's worst in a century.
According to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the state's total population was directly affected by the deluge and related incidents.
The residents now want political parties to take up climate change as one of the main issues in the upcoming general election.