New political Party, ‘Twenty20’, Emerged In Kerala
New political party, ‘Twenty20’, Emerged In Kerala, declared candidates for five seats in the assembly.
The ‘Twenty20’, an industrial charity-turned political party that has won an impressive victory in the recent civic elections in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, has announced to contest the assembly elections.
On Monday, it announced its candidates for five seats. ‘Twenty20’ surprised political parties by performing well in civic elections
‘Twenty20’ started a few years ago as a development initiative of Anna Kitex Group. It surprised the mainstream political parties by winning four-gram panchayats.
Nine-block panchayat divisions, and two Zilla panchayat divisions in the civic elections held in Ernakulam district in December last year.
Twenty20 ‘declares candidates for five assembly seats
Buoyed by his performance in the civic elections in the district, ‘Twenty20’ chief and Kaitex chairman and managing director Sabu Jacob announced his nominees for the state’s five seats.
Industrialist K.K. Chittilapalli, film actor Srinivasan, and director Siddiqui were also present. A seven-member advisory committee constituted to campaign the party.
Jacob announced a seven-member advisory committee headed by Chittilappally to handle the election campaign of the party. Srinivasan and Siddiqui are members of this committee, but they will not contest.
Results of the Kerala assembly election will come on 2 May.
The Election Commission has announced the schedule of upcoming assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry on 26 February.
Under this, the voting will be held from 27 March to 29 April and the votes will be counted on 2 May. Politics hot in Kerala for gold and dollar smuggling.
The politics of smuggling gold and dollars into the state before the Kerala assembly elections have been hot. Chief Minister P. Vijayan has surrounded Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muralitharan,
The day after Swapna Suresh, the main accused in the gold smuggling case accused the state Chief Minister and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of involvement in smuggling dollars.
At the same time, the Customs Department has issued a notice to Vinodini Balakrishnan, wife of Kodiyari Balakrishnan, former Secretary of State CPI (M), for questioning in his Kochi office on 10 March.
Vinodini is accused of taking iPhones as a gift from a builder arrested for smuggling dollars.
