LS election: CPM busy scouting for right candidates

With barely three months to go for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(M) is considering to stick to the traditional approach of picking ‘winnable candidates’ in a bid to wrest UDF’s traditional strongholds. The political circles are abuzz with conjectures about possible candidates in each constituency. In segments where the CPI(M)’s chances of winning are bleak, the party has an open mind to welcome winnable candidates from among the LDF constituents.
Party state secretariat member K N Balagopal is the frontrunner for the Kollam Lok Sabha constituency where politburo member M A Baby lost to RSP’s N K Premachandran in the 2014 elections. The CPI(M) had been planning to field another party secretariat member K J Thomas in Pathanamthitta, but now the party is looking to present a candidate who is acceptable to all sections of society taking into consideration the political impact of Sabarimala verdict. Although Kerala Congress (Democratic) chairman Francis George has evinced keenness to contest from Pathanamthitta, the LDF is also weighing the option of fielding K B Ganesh Kumar of Kerala Congress (B), one of the new front constituents, there.

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