Exceptions Made By The Party in The Past
Notably, CPI(M) has previously made exceptions to allowing leaders to contest more than two times. AK Balan, Thomas Isaac and G Sudhakaran were elected to the Assembly for a third time in 2016.
Chitharanjan was a long-time leader of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). He was elected as the Alappuzha Municipal Chairman in 2015. In the last five years, he has been working as the chairman of Matsyafed, the Kerala State Co-operative Federation for Fisheries Development Ltd. He is well-known among fisherfolk as a political worker.
G Sudhakaran first contested in 1996 from Kayamkulam and won by more than 2,000 votes.
In the 2001 election, Thomas Isaac won from Mararikulam by more than 8,400 votes, but G Sudhakaran was defeated from Kayamkulam by around 2,000 votes.
Later, in 2006, Thomas Isaac won from Mararikulam by a record margin of 17,679 votes. The same year, G Sudhakaran won with a margin of 11,929 votes from Ambalapuzha.
In 2011, G…