Jose K Mani, Elamaram Kareem, Binoy Viswam file Rajya Sabha nomination papers
CPM central committee member and CITU state general secretary Elamaram Kareem will succeed Mr C. P. Narayanan whose term has ended.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Rajya Sabha candidates, Elamaram Kareem (CPM), Binoy Viswam (CPI) and Jose K. Mani of KC(M), filed their nomination papers before Assembly secretary V. K. Babu Prakash, who is also the presiding officer, here on Monday. CPM central committee member and CITU state general secretary Elamaram Kareem will succeed Mr C. P. Narayanan whose term has ended.
The CPI which does not have a representative in the Rajya Sabha gets one through Mr Binoy Viswam. The LDF candidates came to file their nominations along with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI secretary Kanam Rajendran, Mr K. B. Ganesh Kumar MLA, ministers T. M. Thomas Isaac and E. Chandrasekharan. UDF candidate Jose K. Mani, who filed his nomination by 2 p.m., was accompanied by AICC general secretary Oommen Chandy, Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala, Muslim League national general secretary P. K. Kunhalikutty and others.
The election will take place on June 21. The counting of votes will be held at 5 p.m. on the same day. The terms of Mr Joy Abraham, KC(M), Mr P.J. Kurien, Congress, and Mr C.P. Narayanan, CPM, end on July 1. Meanwhile, CPM secretary Kodiyeri Balakris-hnan said in Kottayam that the
LDF will not field a candidate against Mr Jose K. Mani in the Rajya Sabha election. He asked whether the UDF was ready to face a by-election in Kottayam Parliament constituency. “Everyone is asking us whether the LDF will field a third candidate in the Rajya Sabha election. We will not do it because what is happening now in the UDF is not politics, but tiff among leaders. If there was politics, we would have happily fielded a candidate,” said Mr Kodiyeri.