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`LDF's victory was a political one'

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI(M) district secretary M. Vijayakumar has said that V.S. Sivakumar, the UDF candidate for the recently held Lok Sabha byelection, had received 50,000 votes from BJP supporters. He levelled the charge at a press conference convened at the CPI(M) district committee here on Thursday.

"The BJP leaders had claimed they would receive at least 85,000 votes after the polling was over, but they got only 36,000. The remaining votes went to the UDF candidate as part of an unholy alliance between the party and the BJP," said the former Assembly Speaker.

The victory of Pannian Raveendran was `purely political' and devoid of communal overtones as alleged by the ruling front.

According to Mr. Vijayakumar, the LDF has a proven vote base of 3.2 lakh voters in the Lok Sabha constituency. The resentment of the people against the policies adopted by the UDF Government and the influence wielded by the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) among the voters had contributed to improving the margin of victory, he said.

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