UDF would back G Sudhakaran, who is contesting in Ambalappuzha constituency, P K Sasi in Ottapalam, T K Govindan in Taliparamba, and V Kunhikrishnan in Payyannur

Congress screening committee has decided not to field a party candidate in Ambalappuzha and to extend support to dissident CPI(M) leader G. Sudhakaran instead, according to sources

Former CPI(M) Minister G. Sudhakaran has filed his papers as a 'people’s Independent' candidate in Ambalappuzha, breaking his long association with the party after feeling discriminated against regarding a term waiver for contesting Assembly polls.

State secretary says it is superfluous to discuss Sudhakaran who has severed links with the party. He says the Ambalappuzha constituency will remain with the LDF since “the vote is for the party, not personalities.”

If the veteran communist leader’s grassroots connect gels with UDF’s electoral machinery, the contest in Ambalappuzha could be turned on its head.

Sudhakaran, however, says he has ‘no plans of abandoning the Communist party’s ideals, to which he remains steadfast to’, or to join any other party or front