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Nine from Kerala, including union minister V Muraleedharan and former governor of Mizoram, Kummanam Rajasekharan feature in the list.
Here's a quick look at the outcome of the electoral battles that excited people from all across Kerala.
Nemom, BJP's lone seat in the Kerala Assembly, witnessed a triangular contest between the BJP, CPM and Congress this time.
The Congress, which once lorded over the constituency cornering 50 percent of the votes, had left it to minor allies since 2011.
Local BJP leaders asserted that the drop in voter cout may affect its rival parties, viz., Congress and the CPM.
Muraleedharan and Kummanam had contested against each other from the neighbouring Vattiyoorkaavu in 2016. When Muraleedharan finished ahead of Kummanam, CPM’s T N Seema came third.
In the last assembly polls BJP's O Rajagopal had created history in Nemom as he won and thus became the first-ever legislator of his party in the state.
Several of the Congress booth presidents in Nemom have formally resigned, but there are others who have not even cared to inform their leaders that they have quit working.
None of the parties is yet to formally release their candidate list. As of now only the list of probables is ready and sources have conveyed the names of likely picks from several constituencies.
Kummanam Rajasekharan said that the propaganda that leaders had removed him from the party office was a figment of some people's imagination and that he was still living in the party office, he said in an interview.