T’puram:
Binoy Viswam,
Elamaram Kareem and
Jose K Mani filed their nominations for the three vacant Rajya Sabha (RS) seats on Monday. If there are no other nominations, then these three
candidates will be declared elected on Thursday.
CITU state secretary Kareem and CPI central secretariat member Viswam came together to file their nominations before the legislature secretary VK Babu Prakash accompanied by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran. Party leaders, MLAs and ministers were present during the event. Jose K Mani was accompanied by senior UDF leaders Ramesh Chennithala, Oommen Chandy, KC Joseph, MK Muneer, KNA Khader and Anoop Jacob. Other Congress MLAs, present in the assembly, did not accompany Jose, especially the youngsters. TNN