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Triumph of people's politics: PDP

Staff Reporter

Party sees politicisation of Muslim votes

Kozhikode: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has described the thumping victory of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the just concluded Assembly elections as a triumph of people's politics.

At a news conference here on Saturday, party's State general secretary Gafoor Puthupadi and district president M.P. Firoz Khan said the humiliating defeat of the United Democratic Front (UDF) had made Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and other Congress leaders lose their balance.

Mr. Chandy was making a hue and cry about the LDF campaigning in the elections using the posters of the PDP leader Abdul Nasir Maudany. But it was he who fell at the feet of Maudany to get votes during the Assembly elections in 2001.

One of the highlights of these elections was politicisation of Muslim votes and awareness shown by backward communities. People were clever enough to select and defeat some of the candidates, Mr. Gafoor said.

He said the UDF leaders had no right to accuse the Left parties of aligning with communal forces since the former had faced the elections with the support of Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Indian Union Muslim League and the National Development Front.

The defeat of the UDF candidates in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kasaragod districts was historically inevitable.

The defeat of UDF heavyweights at Kuttipuram, Piravom, Koduvally, Kottarakara, Punalur and Manjeswaram was a pointer in this regard, he said.

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