Neyyattinkara By-polls

Dealing a further blow to CPI-M, ruling UDF in Kerala on Friday wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from it in the hotly contested by-election. Congress candidate R Selvaraj defeated CPIM's F Lawrence by a comfortable margin of 6,334 votes in the June 4 bypoll whose outcome has come as a morale-booster to the one-year old Oommen Chandy Ministry...

AIADMK has established a comfortable lead over its closest rival DMDK in the byelection to Pudukkottai Assembly constituency. In Kerala, Congress heading the ruling United Democratic Front wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from the CPI-M-led LDF in the keenly fought by-election.

Over 80 per cent of voting was recorded in the by-poll election today to Neyyattinkara assembly constituency near Thiruvananthapuram where ruling Congress-led UDF, LDF spearheaded by CPI and BJP are engaged in a triangular tussle.

The Congress in Kerala has declared renegade CPM leader R Selvaraj as its candidate for the upcoming assembly by-election in Neyyattinkara. Selvaraj, a two-time MLA, was also inducted into the Congress at an election convention in Neyyattinkara near here on Wednesday.

Dealing a further blow to CPI-M, ruling UDF in Kerala on Friday wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from it in the hotly contested by-election. Congress candidate R Selvaraj defeated CPIM's F Lawrence by a comfortable margin of 6,334 votes in the June 4 bypoll whose outcome has come as a morale-booster to the one-year old Oommen Chandy Ministry...

AIADMK has established a comfortable lead over its closest rival DMDK in the byelection to Pudukkottai Assembly constituency. In Kerala, Congress heading the ruling United Democratic Front wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from the CPI-M-led LDF in the keenly fought by-election.

Over 80 per cent of voting was recorded in the by-poll election today to Neyyattinkara assembly constituency near Thiruvananthapuram where ruling Congress-led UDF, LDF spearheaded by CPI and BJP are engaged in a triangular tussle.

The Congress in Kerala has declared renegade CPM leader R Selvaraj as its candidate for the upcoming assembly by-election in Neyyattinkara. Selvaraj, a two-time MLA, was also inducted into the Congress at an election convention in Neyyattinkara near here on Wednesday.