The most striking outcome was in Anthoor municipality, where the LDF registered a clean sweep by winning all the 29 wards, several by huge margins ....
Smaller political formations such as the Welfare Party and the SDPI, which had fielded candidates either independently or under different electoral arrangements in select wards, have managed to register modest gains at the ward and panchayat levels.
T'puram. BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Monday said LDF and UDF facilitated political space for Jamaat-e-Islami and SDPI in Kerala... That is exactly what we are asking too.
BJP representatives failed to get institutes of eminence, bring in any major project and complete even highway upgradation projects, chides State PresidentAbdul Majeed....
The Directorate of Enforcement had reported that SDPI functioned as the ‘political front of PFI,’ with the latter ‘controlling, funding and supervising’ its activities, says the MP ....
Statewide, the SDPI currently occupies 103 local body seats and the WPI 75. The parties are aiming to double their tally. The SDPI has lined up roughly 4,000 candidates in the State....
It added that SDPI was majorly dependent on PFI for its day-to-day functions, policy-making, selecting candidates for elections, public programmes, cadre mobilisation and other related activities.