Election Commission of India on Tuesday informed that the by-poll to the Neyyattinakara Assembly constituency will be conducted on June 2 and the vote counting will be held on June 15.
The Assembly seat fell vacant following the resignation of former CPM MLA-R Selvaraj. An official notification regarding this would be announced on May 9, sources said. The last date for filing nominations is on May 16 and the scrutiny would take place on May 17, meanwhile the last date for withdrawing nominations is on May 19.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be fielding senior party leader O Rajagopal for the by-election to Neyyattinkara Assembly seat. BJP believes that by fielding a senior leader in Neyyattinkara the party can achieve a thumping victory in by-election.
Meanwhile the first worry of the CPI(M) is the fact that the LDF candidate’s rival will be Marxist renegade R Selvaraj, whose resignation as MLA representing Neyyattinkara and from the party on March 9 necessitated the by-election. Selvaraj’s candidature is a foregone conclusion but the only thing left to be known is whether he would be an official Congress candidate or an Independent.
The CPI(M) the other day declared F Lawrence, a member of the Parassala Block Panchayat and a comparatively unknown politician in Neyyattinkara, as the LDF candidate for the bypoll. Though Lawrence has several plus points in the community-ridden politics of the constituency, the CPI(M) will have to first carry out a special campaign to familiarise him with the electorate.
In the existing circumstances, the CPI(M) cannot even imagine losing the Neyyattinkara bypoll especially as it had already lost the March 17 by-election in Piravam leading to the restoration of the original strength (72) of the Congress-led ruling UDF in the 140-member State Assembly.
At the same time, the resignation of Selvaraj had brought the LDF strength down to 67 from 68.
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