In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) candidate from the Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency E T Mohammed Basheer had secured a lead of 11,881 votes over his nearest rival LDF backed independent candidate V. Abdurahman in the Kottakkal assembly constituency. However, the lead was much less than the 35,902 votes by which margin the party won the Kottakkal seat in 2011.
IUML has denied ticket to its sitting MLA to contest the seat in 2016 assembly polls. While the party has fielded K K Abid Husain Thangal to contest the seat in 2016 assembly elections, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)’s N.A. Mohammed Kutty is the LDF nominee. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader K.K. Surendran is in the fray on behalf of the BJP.
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