The campaigning for the local body polls in Ernakulam has shifted to top gear ahead of the polling on December 9.
Candidates are in the final lap of making house visits and meeting voters. Though the campaign buzz is slowly peaking in the urban local bodies, the situation is different in the second towns and panchayats. Candidates and campaign managers remain busy as they are actively organising corner meetings and making last-minute phone calls to reach out to voters. Candidates have started touring their wards in open vehicles accompanied by local leaders and party workers.
The key fronts, including the United Democratic Front (UDF), Left Democratic Front (LDF), and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), exuded confidence of putting up an impressive performance in the district. Already, senior leaders of most of the parties have participated in the election campaign.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will address a public meeting organised by the Left front on Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium premises at Kaloor on Friday evening. S. Sathish, district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said that their campaign schedule had been progressing as planned. “Senior leaders, including CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan and Polit Bureau member A. Vijayaraghavan, have already participated in the election campaign,” he said.
Mohammed Shiyas, president of the District Congress Committee, said that the fourth round of squad work had started as the workers of the UDF were busy distributing voter slips at the doorstep. “We started early as it will take at least five to six days to complete the distribution of the slips,” he said. He pointed out that senior leaders, including K.C. Venugopal, Sunny Joseph, V.D. Satheesan, and Adoor Prakash, had attended the election campaign in the district,” he said.
K.S. Shaiju, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s city district committee, said that party workers had completed three rounds of house visits in various divisions under the Kochi Corporation. “There are divisions in which the candidates have completed at least five visits,” he said. BJP leader and Union Minister Suresh Gopi was part of the campaign on Thursday. Union Minister George Kurian would be participating in the campaign on Saturday, he said.
Published – December 04, 2025 11:21 pm IST
