Kozhikode: The entry of Kozhikode Mayor V.K.C. Mammadkoya as CPM candidate in Beypore in place of Elamaram Karim, sitting MLA, would force Adam Mulsi, the young candidate designate of the Congress, to rework his poll strategy.
Elamaram Karim is facing a series of allegations, including many land deals and granting permission to a Bangalore-based company for mining in Chakkittappara. The CPM was also scared of the growing influence of BJP in the coastal region.
One of the poll managers of Adam Mulsi told DC that they had kept the arsenal against Elamaram Karim ready. “Elamaram was just a tainted party leader, but when VKC is on the other side we have to rework our whole strategy,” he said.
The CPM is confident that the ‘VKC impact’ would help the party redeem its vanishing glory. “He has close relationship cutting across religious as well as political barriers and Beypore is his home turf,” said P. Mohanan, CPM Kozhikode district secretary.
On the other hand, Adam Mulsi and his team are busy working on the new strategy behind the curtain. A popular student leader during his MBA graduation course at Calicut University, Mulsi has a good network of CU alumni spread across the nation. When he contested in 2011, the entire team of techies, management professionals and media personnel, had come down to Beypore to plan things for their friend, which resulted in reducing the margin of Elamaram Karim in the once CPM citadel.
Now the same team is waiting for the final announcement of his candidature from the Congress leadership. Adam Mulsi told DC that he was confident this time as he had been in constant touch with the Congress workers as well as the public of the constituency. In Beypore, the margin of CPM has been steadily declining. It was around 17,000 in the 2006 Assembly elections which came down to 1,300 in the 2014 Parliament elections,” he pointed out. “Defeating the CPM in Beypore is not a big task now,” he added.
