While the LDF has fielded U.R. Pradeep of Communist Party of India (Marxists) to contest the Chelakkara assembly seat in 2016 assembly elections, dropping the sitting MlA K. Radhakrishnan, the Congress has nominated. K. A. Thulasi who had earlier lost to Radhakrishnan in 2001. Shajimon Vattekkad is in the fray on behalf of BJP which has negligible presence in the constituency.
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