Denied ticket, Kerala Congress women wing chief shaves head

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 14

The Congress was in for some trouble in Kerala the moment it released a list of 86 candidates for the upcoming state elections with the party’s women’s wing chief Lathika Subhash resigning from her post and shaving her head to register protest. Subhash, who was denied ticket from Ettumanoor, sat in the party headquarters courtyard to get her hair shaved.

The list released this evening features former Kerala chief minister Oomen Chandy, the incumbent leader of opposition in the state assembly Ramesh Chennithala and party strongman and MLA VD Satheesan.

They have all been fielded from their respective seats Puthuppally, Haripad and Paravur, respectively. The party has also fielded Vatakara MP K Muraleedharan to take on the lone BJP MLA Rajasekharan in Thiruvananthapuram’s Nemom.

Actor Dharmajan has been fielded from Belussery in Kozhikode.

Kerala Youth Congress leader Shafi Parambil will take on ‘Metroman’ and BJP candidate E Sreedharan in Palakkad.