Babu rebuts CM’s vote trade-off allegation

Congress’s K. Babu, who got elected from Thripunithura, on Tuesday took exception to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s allegation that attributed his victory to vote trade-off between the United Democ

Congress’s K. Babu, who got elected from Thripunithura, on Tuesday took exception to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s allegation that attributed his victory to vote trade-off between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In a statement issued here, Mr. Babu said that the allegation was baseless and amounted to an insult of people of Thripunithura. He claimed that the 29,843 votes secured by the BJP in Thripunithura in 2016 was on account of the stature of the party candidate Thuravur Vishwambaran whose credentials as a spiritual orator and college professor helped him secure the votes of the Hindu faithful and his band of old students.