In the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, all 20 parliamentary seats of Kerala went to the polls. Just like every other state, campaigning blitz could be visible from every corner of the god’s own country too.
However, as soon as the elections got over, leaders from the Left Democratic Front (LDF) decided to clean the campaign mess. The beginning of this has been from Ernakulam constituency.
In this way, LDF leaders are setting a new model for the political class. They are showing the way to other political parties to engage their workers in cleaning the campaign mess, just like they had involved them in the campaigning process to put up posters, hoardings, and writings on the walls.
Activists of the CPM-led ruling front have decided to remove the LDF’s campaign materials including posters and hoardings installed across the constituency. They have also started painting afresh the compound walls used for writing campaign messages.
“By the time the results are declared, all the banners will be torn up and the posters decayed. We have decided to remove them at the earliest because it does not look good and since the elections are over. The campaign mess should also be removed,” senior CPM leader Gopi Kottamurickal told the media.
It has been learnt that the electioneering in the constituency was noted for the noble manner in which it was done by all the contestants.
CPM’s Shine, a school teacher and a municipal councillor, took on Congress’ incumbent MP Hibi Eden and BJP’s K S Radhakrishnan in Ernakulam.
After the polling, Shine expressed gratitude to the leaders and the workers of her rival parties for running a respectful campaign devoid of disrespect and mudslinging to each other.
During the campaigning, UDF candidate Hibi had said that he had instructed the party workers not to resort to any kind of defamation campaign against the woman candidate.
Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency recorded a voter turnout of 68.29%.
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